Superfluous Quotes

155 quotes by 133 authors

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. — Ingrid Bergman
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. — Johannes Brahms
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around… — Maya Angelou
At the time of Caliph Omar's invasion of Egypt, the Arab officer on duty in the destruction of the library of Alexandria used two stamps… — Nils Kjaer
Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. — Isaac Newton
To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Historical refutation as the definitive refutation.- In former times, one sought to prove that there is no God - today one indicates how the belief… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Every soul that is born into flesh is soiled by the filth of wickedness and sin. . . . In the Church, baptism is given… — Origen
If the purpose of lamentation be to excite pity, it is surely superfluous for age and weakness to tell their plaintive stories; for pity presupposes… — Lyndon B. Johnson
Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them! — Joseph Prince
The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. — Pliny the Younger
Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. — Cyril Smith
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary — Richard Baxter
Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. — Theo van Doesburg
We are not to suppose, that there is any violent exertion of power, such as is required in order to produce a great event in… — James Hutton
Students today should live fully every moment of time. This dew-like life fades away; time speeds swiftly. In this short life of ours, avoid involvement… — Dogen
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I held a blue flower in my hand, probably a wild aster, wondering what its name was, and then thought that human names for natural… — Sally Carrighar
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous,… — Saint Augustine
We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really nothing more than… — Henry Morgenthau, Jr.

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