The 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
“Say what you have to say as succinctly as possible. Once you have made your point, stop. Anything that comes after is… — Jim Vuksic Copy Share Image
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy. — Conan O'Brien Copy Share Image
If, in any individual, university training produces a taste for refined idleness, a distaste for sustained effort, a barren intellectual arrogance, or… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
“And here is the sense of its existence: it is conscious of being superfluous. It dilutes, scatters itself, tries to lose itself… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
human names for natural things are superfluous. Nature herself does not name them. The important thing is to know this flower, look… — Sally Carrighar Copy Share Image
Justification by religious performances, and meritorious deeds, is nothing better than the old Pharisaism with a Christian name stuck upon it. .… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I… — Grace Slick Copy Share Image
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the… — Horace Copy Share Image
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous… — Andrzej Wajda Copy Share Image
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
And one thing the void certainly can teach us is how to wait, how to become truly patient, and how to let… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
Of Captain Elliot, already so well known to the government, it would be almost superfluous to speak; in this action, he evinced… — Oliver Hazard Perry Copy Share Image
The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced… — Boris Vian Copy Share Image
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to… — William Penn Copy Share Image
