Language Quote by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant.

— Eric Hoffer

All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work?…

— Rose Macaulay

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…

— Henry Morgenthau, Jr

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

No living creature is naturally greedy, except from fear of want - or in the case of human beings, from vanity, the notion that…

— Thomas More

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober…

— Paulo Coelho

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary

— Richard Baxter

“Wherever poesie can be felt, all poetic touches are superfluous.”

— Robert Walser

To recover the fatherhood idea, we must fashion a new cultural story of fatherhood. The moral of today's story is that fatherhoodis superfluous. The…

— David Blankenhorn

“The aim of all government is to make all government superfluous.”

— Johann Fichte

It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today.…

— Chuck Baldwin