It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any… — Mary Kingsley 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
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed… — Oliver Wolcott Copy Share Image
Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous. — Fabio Quagliarella Copy Share Image
Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah. — Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni Copy Share Image
There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an… — Walter J. Phillips 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
When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does… — St. Vincent Copy Share Image
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance… — Jan Timman Copy Share Image
Simplicity in its essence demands neither a vow of poverty nor a life of rural homesteading. As an ethic of self-conscious material… — David Shi Copy Share Image
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
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
I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be… — Carl Friedrich Gauss 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
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
