Top 250 Superfluous Quotes & Sayings

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

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

Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.

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

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

Enormous and growing parts of the population are basically superfluous for profit-making purposes. Along with this, the jail population is increasing very rapidly; it's the highest in the industrial world by far. New and onerous crime bills are being passed to deal with this superfluous population.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

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

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

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

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

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

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

Knowledge is sometimes superfluous: when we need it, we have it not.

Eliminate the superfluous.

The superfluous is very necessary.

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.

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

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

Everything that is superfluous overflows from the full bosom.

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

Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If your attention is on superfluous aspects that are not part of the story, then you can't be concentrating on the human realities of the piece.

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

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

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.

The soul, when accustomed to superfluous things, acquires a strong habit of desiring things which are neither necessary for the preservation of the individual nor for that of the species. This desire is without limit, whilst those which are necessary are few in number and restricted within certain limits; but what is superfluous is without end.

The superfluous is the most necessary.

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

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

Foreign players are great for Serie A if they add something extra, but a lot of them are superfluous.

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

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

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

What the beautiful-writing writers are most attached to is almost always superfluous.

I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.

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

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

It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.

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

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

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