Best Superfluous Quotes

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

In her (nature’s) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.

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

The superfluous is the most necessary.

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

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

Adequacy is sufficient. All else is superfluous.

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

After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that’s enough.

The superfluous is very necessary.

The superfluous, a very necessary thing.

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

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

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

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

The aim of marketing is to make selling superfluous.

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

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

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

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

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

Putting down on paper what you have to say is an important part of writing, but the words and ideas have to be shaped and cleaned, cleaned as severely as a dog cleans a bone, cleaned until there’s not a shred of anything superfluous.

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

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

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

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.

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

Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.

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

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.

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

Everything in the Universe was as the Creator willed it – nothing superfluous, nothing lacking – a harmony.

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

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 blindness, that whatsoever pleases not the princes and the multitude, the same is rejected as doctrine newly forged, and is condemned for heresy.

Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. … Civilization has promised man freedom, at the cost of giving up everything dear to him, which it arrogantly treated as lies and fantasies. … Hour by hour needs increase and are nearly always unsatisfied, peopling the earth with discontented rebels. The superfluous has become a necessity and luxuries indispensable.