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Tag Name "Superfluous" (124)

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Superfluous words simply spill out when the mind is already full.
Horace
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Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.
Horace
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Frugality is good if liberality be joined with it. The first is leaving off superfluous expenses the last is bestowing them to the benefit of others that need. The first without the last begets covetousness the last without the first begets prodigality.
William Penn
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I love him for his sake And yet I know him a notorious liar, Think him a great way fool, solely a coward Yet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him That they take place when virtue's steely bones Looks bleak i' th' cold wind withal, full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.
William Shakespeare
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After I write, I have nothing to say. The commentary afterwards is superfluous. I write. And that's enough.
Yasmina Reza
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Each superfluous line, each wrongly placed line, any color placed without veneration or care, can spoil everything, that is, the spiritual.
Theo van Doesburg
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In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Titles have never given a just idea of things were it otherwise, the work would be superfluous.
Gustave Courbet
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To call the world God is not to explain it it is only to enrich our language with a superfluous synonym.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason
Thomas Aquinas
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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.
Maimonides
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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.
Henry David Thoreau
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Speculators often prosper through ignorance it is a cliché that in a roaring bull market knowledge is superfluous and experience is a handicap. But the typical experience of the speculator is one of temporary profit and ultimate loss
Benjamin Graham
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Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything.
Victor Hugo
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My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed.
Malcolm Gladwell
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The superfluous blossoms on a fruit tree are meant to symbolize the large way God loves to do pleasant things.
Henry Ward Beecher
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Barbarian invasions would be superfluous: We are our own Huns.
Bertrand de Jouvenel
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The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire
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It is a generally received opinion that there are too many books in the world already. I cannot, however, subscribe to any Institution that proposes to alter this state of affairs, because I find no consensus of opinion as to which are the superfluous books.
Mary Kingsley
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The poets aim is either to profit or to please, or to blend in one the delightful and the useful. Whatever the lesson you would convey, be brief, that your hearers may catch quickly what is said and faithfully retain it. Every superfluous word is spilled from the too-full memory.
Horace
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It is superfluous to be humble on one's own behalf so many people are willing to do it for one.
Celia Green
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The superfluous is the most necessary.
Voltaire
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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.
Michelangelo
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It is almost superfluous to say that there is no such thing as a free and independent press among the mainstream news media today. In fact, the major media more resembles a propaganda machine than it does a free press.
Chuck Baldwin
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