Superfluity Quotes

15 quotes by 15 authors

• A superfluity of wealth, and a train of domestic slaves, naturally banish a sense of general liberty, and nourish the seeds of that kind of… — Mercy Otis Warren
• If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by… — Francois Coillard
• I cannot praise the common superfluity which women now use in their apparel. — John Knox
• Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. — William Shakespeare
• A design may be called organic when there is an harmonious organization of the parts within the whole, according to structure, material, and purpose. Within… — Eliot Noyes
• As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity. — Margaret Cavendish
• I have always thought of our Service as an institution, more than any other bureau, engaged in a field essentially of morality--the aim of man… — Freeman Tilden
• We find collected in this book [The Bible] the superstitious beliefs of the ancient inhabitants of Palestine, with indistinct echoes of Indian and Persian fables,… — Max Nordau
• If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all… — Oscar Wilde
• I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity. — Theophile Gautier
• The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
• Violence arises not out of superfluity of power but out of powerlessness. — Rollo May
• Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. — Will Self
• My business in life is to eat, drink, sleep, and die. Everything else is superfluity and I will have none of it. — Wilkie Collins

Who Wrote These Superfluity Quotes

15 authors contributed a total of 15 Superfluity Quotes as follows:

• 1 Superfluity Quote by Francois Coillard
• 1 Superfluity Quote by John Knox
• 1 Superfluity Quote by William Shakespeare
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Eliot Noyes
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Margaret Cavendish
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Freeman Tilden
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Max Nordau
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Theophile Gautier
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Martin Luther King, Jr.
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Rollo May
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Will Self
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Wilkie Collins
• 1 Superfluity Quote by Mercy Otis Warren