Superfluous Quotes

155 quotes by 133 authors

The "health, education, and welfare" section of government is another boondoggle. First we manufacture indigent and superfluous people by legal monopolies in land, money and… — Laurance Labadie
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. — Oliver Herford
The testimony of scripture is so plain that to add anything were superfluous, were it not that the world is almost now come to that… — John Knox
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. — Piero Ferrucci
The sculpture is already complete within the marble block, before I start my work. It is already there, I just have to chisel away the… — Michelangelo
My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. — Dieter Rams
The problem is the following, black music is increasing encumbered by white elements, often pleasant but always superfluous, easily and advantageously replaced with black elements. — Boris Vian
History is the fruit of power, but power itself is never so transparent that its analysis becomes superfluous. The ultimate mark of power may be… — Michel-Rolph Trouillot
The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things. — Donald A. Norman
The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. — Peter Drucker
For other things mild Heav'n a time ordains, And disapproves that care, though wise in show, That with superfluous burden loads the day, And when… — John Milton
Knowledge and liberty are so prevalent in this country, that I do not believe that the United States would ever be disposed to establish one… — Oliver Wolcott
Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never… — Leonardo da Vinci
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. — Seneca the Younger
However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more… — Hans Kung
Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half — Jan Timman
Except to heaven, she is nought; Except for angels, lone; Except to some wide-wandering bee, A flower superfluous blown; Except for winds, provincial; Except by… — Howard Mumford Jones
It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In… — Chuck Baldwin
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World War III is… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr.
Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous. — Albert Einstein

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