Easy Quotes: Breezy Inspiration and Effortless Wisdom

"Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

"A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread"

George Herbert, Poet

"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer"

John Madden, Entertainer

"It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know.""

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

"Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy"

Saadi, Poet

"Life is easy to chronicle, but bewildering to practice"

E. M. Forster, Novelist

"Hard work has made it easy. That is my secret. That is why I win"

Nadia Comaneci, Athlete

"While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

"Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"All things are difficult before they are easy"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

"The discontented man finds no easy chair"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

"Anticipate the difficult by managing the easy"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel"

Jimi Hendrix, Musician

"It is easy to get everything you want, provided you first learn to do without the things you cannot get"

Elbert Hubbard, Writer

"You have freedom when you're easy in your harness"

Robert Frost, Poet

"The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one"

Franklin P. Jones, Journalist

"It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself doing it. In England, one feels all the social restraints holding one back. But here, anything can happen"

W. H. Auden, Poet

"If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it"

Olin Miller, Writer

"Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness"

Leon Trotsky, Revolutionary

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"In order to live free and happily you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice"

Richard Bach, Novelist

"When men are easy in their circumstances, they are naturally enemies to innovations"

Joseph Addison, Writer

"The way of life is not as easy as some people think... like me"

Mattie Stepanek, Poet

"Hitting the ball was easy. Running around the bases was the tough part"

Mickey Mantle, Athlete

"I began acting at age eight, but if you don't stay on your game then people pass on you. Being on a show, it's a little easy to get comfortable, so I'm trying to get back on it. I'm taking some acting classes and watching movies, and I'm just trying to stay up with other actors"

Jason Dohring, Actor

"A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"It means a lot to you, to be out there. The highs are pretty high, and the lows are pretty low. You know, it's easy to feel like you let the team down. I mean, at the end of the day we still got to figure out a way to get through the tie"

Andre Agassi, Athlete

"Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts"

Charles Maurice de Talleyrand, Diplomat

"I recognize that I had a good deal of good luck in my life. I came along at a time when it was pretty easy to get a job in journalism. I went to work at CBS News when I was about 22, and within a year or so was reporting on the air"

Charles Kuralt, Journalist

"The real story is that I had unprotected sex. That's that. That's easy"

Magic Johnson, Athlete

"I think San Francisco is the best place in the whole world for an easy life"

Imogen Cunningham, Photographer

"People who think radio acting is easy are wrong, because you got nothing to work with but your voice"

Melanie Griffith, Actress

"One of the great things about being recognized is that you receive this feedback from people. It is easy to see how sincere people are. It's nothing fake or jive. They're giving sincere appreciation. And it's not that easy to express"

John Astin, Actor

"Regaining the Champions Cup is not going to be easy"

Luis Figo, Athlete

"The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that"

Pearl Bailey, Actress

"I was not an easy kid"

Patricia Heaton, Actress

"There are three musts that hold us back: I must do well. You must treat me well. And the world must be easy"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I've always found it easy and natural and, more importantly, necessary to articulate thoughts and feelings, and fierce emotions, through the written word. Fantasy and horror came to me when I was very young"

Kim Elizabeth

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