Quotes about Superfluous

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Votes: 3

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind. Votes: 3

Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full. Votes: 3

Superfluous money buys wasted time, propelling desires that otherwise lay buried beneath the feet of honest toil. Votes: 3

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage, Till pitying Nature signs the last release, And bids afflicted worth retire to peace. Votes: 3

We have these amazing gifts of music and mathematics and painting and Olympic running. I mean, we're the animal that is best of all the animals at long-distance running. Why? It is quite amazing. Superfluous gifts you don't really need to survive. Votes: 3

The superfluous, a very necessary thing. Votes: 2

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous. Votes: 2

God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs. Votes: 2

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. Votes: 2

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. Votes: 2

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity. Votes: 2

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. Votes: 2

It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table. Votes: 2

It's a good thing I was born in this century, when superfluous television seems to be part of the economy. Votes: 2

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous. Votes: 2

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. Votes: 2

Be convinced that, if man were able to reach the end without preparatory studies, such studies would not be preparatory but tiresome and utterly superfluous. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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 there. Votes: 2

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. Votes: 2

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. Votes: 2

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 outside, it messes with your mind. Votes: 2

If man asks for many laws it is only because he is sure that his neighbor needs them; privately he is an unphilosophical anarchist, and thinks laws in his own case superfluous. Votes: 2

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be. Votes: 2

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men. Votes: 2

The Heaneys were aristocrats, in the sense that they took for granted a code of behavior that was given and unspoken. Argumentation, persuasion, speech itself, for God's sake, just seemed otiose and superfluous to them. Votes: 2

Junk, redundancy, and inefficiency characterize astrophysical signals. It seems they characterize cells and sea lions, too. These biological constructions have lots of superfluous and redundant parts, and are a long way from being optimally built or operated. Votes: 2

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid - in which case all comment is superfluous - or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem. Votes: 2

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 good. Everything which does not further that goal, either directly or indirectly, is at best superfluous. Votes: 2

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers. Votes: 2

From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to summer as the time when I could work at the library four or five days a week. I was never a camp counselor, a lifeguard, a scooper of ice cream. Votes: 2

Eliminate the superfluous. Votes: 0

The superfluous is very necessary. Votes: 0

The superfluous is the most necessary. Votes: 0

It is for the superfluous we sweat. Votes: 0

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous. Votes: 0

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. Votes: 0

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat. Votes: 0

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous. Votes: 0

Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous. Votes: 0

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom. Votes: 0

Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns. Votes: 0

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. Votes: 0

Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Votes: 0

In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous. Votes: 0

It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat. Votes: 0

If the dance is right, there shouldn't be a single superfluous movement. Votes: 0

A pure style in writing results from the rejection of everything superfluous. Votes: 0

Words would be superfluous if we had deeds to show for Them. Votes: 0

We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary Votes: 0

Contentment empties the heart of all superfluous carriage, thus leaving it entirely for Allah. Votes: 0

I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press. Votes: 0

A kiss is the natures way to stop a conversation, when the words are superfluous Votes: 0

There is a joy in going without things, a fine tang in eliminating the superfluous. Votes: 0

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking. Votes: 0

Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game. Votes: 0

All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. Votes: 0

Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. Votes: 0

It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason Votes: 0

Learn everything you possibly can, and you will discover later that none of it was superfluous. Votes: 0

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. Votes: 0

Not to give to those in need what is to you superfluous is akin to fraud. Votes: 0

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament. Votes: 0

Jesus removes all that is superfluous & unclean from our prayers, & adds His perfection, beauty & fragrance to them! Votes: 0

But life is short: while one lives, everything is lacking; when one is dead, everything is superfluous. Votes: 0

I suppose the longer anyone spends on earth, the closer we all get to becoming superfluous characters. Votes: 0

My goal is to omit everything superfluous so that the essential is shown to best possible advantage. Votes: 0

The erection of a monument is superfluous, our memory will endure if our lives have deserved it. Votes: 0

Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny. Votes: 0

Titles have never given a just idea of things; were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous. Votes: 0

When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous Votes: 0

Man finds happiness only in the superfluous. Under communism, he has only the essentials. How abominable and ridiculous! Votes: 0

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things. Votes: 0

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it - nothing superfluous, nothing lacking - a harmony. Votes: 0

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough. Votes: 0

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility. Votes: 0

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. Votes: 0

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. Votes: 0

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it Votes: 0

The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things. Votes: 0

It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf; so many people are willing to do it for one. Votes: 0

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. Votes: 0

Dress not thy thoughts in too fine a raiment. And be not a man of superfluous words or superfluous deeds. Votes: 0

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless Votes: 0

Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous. Votes: 0

Laughter relieves us of superfluous energy, which, if it remained unused, might become negative, that is, poison. Laughter is the antidote. Votes: 0

My idea was to cut shape into the hair, to use it like fabric and take away everything that was superfluous. Votes: 0

To call the world God is not to explain it; it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym. Votes: 0

Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual. Votes: 0

A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. Votes: 0

When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. Votes: 0

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous. Votes: 0

Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes. Votes: 0

A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph. Votes: 0

Half the variations which are calculated in a tournament game turn out to be completely superfluous. Unfortunately, no one knows in advance which half Votes: 0

The statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter, and removes the rubbish. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous. Votes: 0

Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the "life eternal"! Votes: 0

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I'm a Nietzschean about human nature. The bulk of humanity is exhausted and superfluous, miscreant, confused, latently criminal, opportunistic. I rely on that. That's leverage, man. Votes: 0

My writing tends to become very dense, so I have to keep some cushion. Sometimes, words that seem superfluous are actually essential for the overall effect. Votes: 0

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 superfluous material. Votes: 0

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 than rights. Votes: 0

Mirth is a Proteus, changing its shape and manner with the thousand diversities of individual character, from the most superfluous gayety to the deepest, moat earnest humor. Votes: 0

I come to my solitary woodland walk as the homesick go home. I thus dispose of the superfluous and see things as they are, grand and beautiful. Votes: 0

If Christianity were only a development, then Christ was not needed. If Christianity were only a scheme of morals, then the divine incarnation was a thing superfluous. Votes: 0

The dachshund is a perfectly engineered dog. It is precisely long enough for a single standard stroke of the back, but you aren't paying for any superfluous leg. Votes: 0

While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible. Votes: 0

There are, while human miseries abound, A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, Without one fool or flatterer at your board, Without one hour of sickness or disgust. Votes: 0

The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous." Votes: 0

What God declares the believing heart confesses without the need of further proof. Indeed, to seek proof is to admit doubt, and to obtain proof is to render faith superfluous. Votes: 0

What is charm then? The free giving of a grace, the spending of something given by nature in her role of spendthrift ... something extra, superfluous, unnecessary, essentially a power thrown away. Votes: 0

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 God sends a cheerful hour, refrains. Votes: 0

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 is the mean of many extremes. Votes: 0

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores. Votes: 0

All human beings are born with the same creative potential. Most people squander theirs away on a million superfluous things. I expend mine on one thing and one thing only: my art. Votes: 0

I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed. Votes: 0

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 in superfluous things and just study the Way. Votes: 0

Charity, like nature, abhors a vacuum. Next to putting it in a bank, men like to squander their superfluous wealth on those to whom it is sure to be doing the least possible good. Votes: 0

It is not hard to compose but it is wonderfully hard to let the superfluous notes fall under the table. . . So many melodies fly about, one must be careful not to tread on them. Votes: 0

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous. Votes: 0

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices. Votes: 0

The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary. Votes: 0

The best of artists hath no thought to show which the rough stone in its superfluous shell doth not include; to break the marble spell is all the hand that serves the brain can do. Votes: 0

I don't aspire, but I would be very happy if one of my poems suddenly offered someone a shady rest stop, a breather in our interminable march under the murderous, scorching heat of the superfluous. Votes: 0

All that is not useful in a picture is detrimental. A work of art must be harmonious in its entirety; for superfluous details would, in the mind of the beholder, encroach upon the essential elements. Votes: 0

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 moral of the new story must be that fatherhood is essential. Votes: 0

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 its invisibility; the ultimate challenge, the exposition of its roots. Votes: 0

Complications take many forms, including an imbalanced lifestyle, toxic relationships, hidden emotional debts, resistance, indecision, addictions, and negative conditioned beliefs. When our life is overly complicated, we're weighed down by superfluous things at every level. Votes: 0