“All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.”

— Joseph Joubert

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French moralist and essayist 1754–1824

Simon R. Green (1955) British writer

“Brexit has been pushed by certain people who predicted easy solutions. Brexit has shown us one thing - and I fully respect British sovereignty in saying this - it has demonstrated that those who said you can easily do without Europe, that it will all go very well, that it is easy and there will be lots of money, are liars. This is all the more true because they left the next day, so they didn't have to manage it.”

Emmanuel Macron (1977) 25th President of the French Republic

Donald Tusk: Theresa May's Brexit trade plan won't work https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-45586010 BBC News (20 September 2018)
2017, 2018

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“I'm sorry' I said again. Whenever someone tells you something said, it's the only thing you can think to say, even if you're already said it before.”

Nicholas Sparks book A Walk to Remember

Source: A Walk to Remember

“We're having a celebration, so all sorts of things have been said which are not true," I said. "That's how to act at a party.”

Kurt Vonnegut book Bluebeard

Bluebeard (1987)

“No. No no no no. It is not easy. Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you're friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

Rachel Cohn (1968) American writer

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“Things that matter are not easy. Feelings of happiness are easy. Happiness is not. Flirting is easy. Love is not. Saying you’re friends is easy. Being friends is not.”

David Levithan (1972) American author and editor

Source: Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List

“All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.”

Laozi (-604) semi-legendary Chinese figure, attributed to the 6th century, regarded as the author of the Tao Te Ching and fou…

“You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said.
"There's an easy way?" I asked.”

Patrick Rothfuss book The Wise Man's Fear

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“I think I have already said somewhere that mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.”

Henri Poincaré book Science and Method

Original: (fr) Je ne sais si je n’ai déjà dit quelque part que la Mathématique est l’art de donner le même nom à des choses différentes.
Source: Science and Method (1908), Part I. Ch. 2 : The Future of Mathematics, p. 31

“All things that are easy to say have already been perfectly said.”

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