Central Simple

Famous quotes containing the words central and/or simple:

“Et in Arcadia ego.
[I too am in Arcadia.]”
—Anonymous, Anonymous.

Tomb inscription, appearing in classical paintings by Guercino and Poussin, among others. The words probably mean that even the most ideal earthly lives are mortal. Arcadia, a mountainous region in the central Peloponnese, Greece, was the rustic abode of Pan, depicted in literature and art as a land of innocence and ease, and was the title of Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance (1590)

“The real drawback to “the simple life” is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.”
—Katharine Fullerton Gerould (1879–1944)