Superfluous Quotes

155 quotes by 129 authors

What if it is for life's sake that we must die? In truth we are not individuals; and it is because we think ourselves such… — Will Durant
It is superfluous to try by the standards of theory, a part of the constitution which is allowed on all hands to be the result… — James Madison
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous. — Vidal Sassoon
Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else,… — Paul Klee
The aim of the poet is to inform or delight, or to combine together, in what he says, both pleasure and applicability to life. In… — Horace
Google is so strange. It promises everything, but everything isnâ€™t there. You type in the words for what you need, and what you need becomes… — Ali Smith
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. — Emile M. Cioran
Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already… — J. G. Ballard
From what I have said of the natives of New Holland they may appear to some to be the most wretched people upon earth but… — James Cook
Willing is superfluous for Me. For grace is ever available to devotees who have steady love and faith. Since I move freely with them, talking… — Sathya Sai Baba
The first act by virtue of which the State really constitutes itself the representative of the whole of societythe taking possession of the means of… — Friedrich Engels
When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless — John Henry Newman
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it — David Hilbert
But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. — Lope de Vega
Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses; the last is bestowing them to the benefit of… — William Penn
One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide - the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing,… — Mother Teresa
The Church of Christ, zealous and cautious guardian of the dogmas deposited with it, never changes any phase of them. It does not diminish them… — St. Vincent
As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever… — Edward Gibbon
We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. — Joseph Joubert

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