See Also: EASE

1. As devoid of any taste for luxury as a stone-deaf person of the sense of hearing —Isak Dinesen
2. Crude as life among farming people —Daniel Berrigan
3. Great men, like nature, use simple language —Marquis de Luc de Clappiers Vauvenargues

   See Also: WORD(S), SPEAKING

4. I am simple … just like that broken bottle. I have no secrets —John Updike
5. Physically as plain as a pike —Charles Johnson

   A variation is to be “Plain as a pikestaff.”

6. [Body as] plain as a cheap clothes-rack —Brian Moore
7. Plain as a pine door —Sumner Locke Elliott
8. Plain as black and white —Karl Shapiro
9. (Hands) plain as blank pages —Gerald A. Browne
10. Plain as English mutton —E. B. White
11. Simple as a bucket —Paul Theroux
12. Simple as a Hopper painting —Anon
13. Simple as chessboards —George Bernard Shaw
14. Simple as children’s cradle songs —Adrienne Rich
15. (Words) simple as potatoes —Marge Piercy
16. Simple as rain —Theodore Dreiser
17. (Would that life were as) simple as sport —Rita Mae Brown
18. Simple as the golden rule —Anon
19. A very simple man … like a tree that has not many roots, but one tap-root that goes down deep —Willa Cather