Superfluous Quotes

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Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. — Plutarch
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the… — Carl Friedrich Gauss
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to… — John Calvin
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. — Elias Canetti
Through your life, most people peel away the junk that's not useful, that's superfluous. You are determined to peel that away. I do one thing… — Grace Slick
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of… — Andrzej Wajda
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said, the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, everything superfluous runs over as from a full vessel. — Horace
The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would… — Horace
Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for… — Victor Hugo
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp,… — Seneca the Younger
It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy. — Conan O'Brien
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press. — Mary-Louise Parker
Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists.… — Ludwig Quidde
A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have… — Eddie Redmayne
Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous. — Hugh of Saint Victor
Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. — Jacques Ellul
Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the… — Kim Alexis
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image.… — Ezra Pound
He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. — Elizabeth Gaskell
It seems superfluous to constrain trading in some of the newer derivatives and other innovative financial contracts of the past decade. The worst have failed;… — Alan Greenspan

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