Quotes with superfluous

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  • Elizabeth Gaskell He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Seneca It is the superfluous things for which men sweat.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Voltaire The superfluous is very necessary.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Ingrid Bergman A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
    Ingrid Bergman
    Swedish actress (1915 - 1982)
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  • J. G. Ballard 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.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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  • Leonardo DaVinci Human subtelty 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.
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  • Plutarch Nothing is cheap which is superfluous, for what one does not need, is dear at a penny.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Paul Klee Satire must not be a kind of superfluous ill will, but ill will from a higher point of view. Ridiculous man, divine God. Or else, hatred against the bogged-down vileness of average man as against the possible heights that humanity might attain.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Boris Vian 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.
    Boris Vian
    French writer, poet and engineer (1920 - 1959)
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  • Abbe Pierre 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.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson 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.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Miguel de Unamuno 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.
    Miguel de Unamuno
    Spanish philosophical writer (1864 - 1936)
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  • Elias Canetti Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
    Elias Canetti
    Austrian novelist and philosopher (1905 - 1994)
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