A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony. — Joseph Hertz Copy Share Image
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization… — Isabelle Eberhardt Copy Share Image
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a… — Kiki Dimoula Copy Share Image
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous! — Nelson Rodrigues Copy Share Image
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. — Cyril Smith Copy Share Image
The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . .… — Johannes Brahms Copy Share Image
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities his preeminence over them simply and solely… — William James Copy Share Image
Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Joy is there everywhere; it is superfluous, unnecessary; nay, it very often contradicts the most peremptory behests of necessity. It exists to… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
The states of consciousness are all that psychology needs to do her work with. Metaphysics or theology may prove the Soul to… — William James Copy Share Image
Willing is superfluous for Me. For grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
