Best Superfluous Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: A review of a pamphlet purporting to be Documents in relation to the differences which subsisted between the late Commodore Oliver H. Perry, and Captain Jesse D. Elliott

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

Heart Leaving Contentment Superfluous Carriages

Author:Aaidh ibn Abdullah al-Qarni

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

Writing Enough Commentary Superfluous

Author:Yasmina Reza

“Although the formulations of science now offer the most advanced knowledge of nature, men continue to use obsolete forms of thought long discarded by scientific theory. In so far as these obsolete forms are superfluous for science, the fact that they persist violated the principle of the economy of thought, that characteristic trait of the bourgeois temper.”

Men Long Facts Use Form Principles Economy Theory Offers Characteristics Temper Traits Persist Bourgeois Obsolete Superfluous Discarded Scientific Theory

Author:Max Horkheimer

“Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.”

People Writing Two Book Funny Together Three Baby Superfluous

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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

Reason Would Be Natural Known Superfluous

Book:The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

Source: The Summa Theologica: Complete Edition

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

Joy Fine Superfluous Eliminating

Book:Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

Source: Loyalty in Business: One and Twenty Other Good Things

“Superfluous advice is not retained by the full mind.”

Mind Advice Superfluous

Author:Horace

“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.”

Knows Poor Owners Establishment Thieves Superfluous

Author:Horace

“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.”

Character Individual Thousand Shapes Diversity Earnest Superfluous Mirth Moats Proteus

Author:Edwin Percy Whipple

“All sorts of articles and letters appear in the papers about women. Profound questions are raised concerning them. Should they smoke? Should they work? Vote? Marry? Exist? Are not their skirts too short, or their sleeves? Have they a sense of humor, of honor, of direction? Are spinsters superfluous? But how seldom similar inquiries are propounded about men.”

Men Should Honor Paper Letters Vote Profound Raised Smoke Sense Of Humor Articles Papers Inquiry Too Short Sleeves Skirts Superfluous Spinsters

Author:Rose Macaulay

“A statue lies hid in a block of marble, and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter and removes the rubbish. The figure is in the stone; the sculptor only finds it. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to a human soul. The philosopher, the saint, or the hero,--the wise, the good, or the great man,--very often lies hid and concealed in a plebeian, which a proper education might have disinterred, and have brought to light.”

Source: The works of ... Joseph Addison, with notes by R. Hurd

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

Age Lasts Stage Old Age Release Retiring Veteran Superfluous Lag

Book:The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

Source: The poetical works of Samuel Johnson: collated with the best editions

“Of him that hopes to be forgiven it is indispensably required that he forgive. It is, therefore, superfluous to urge any other motive. On this great duty eternity is suspended, and to him that refuses to practise it, the throne of mercy is inaccessible, and the Saviour of the world has been born in vain.”

Source: Johnsoniana; or supplement to Boswell; being Anecdotes and sayings of Dr. Johnson, etc

“Nature, at all events, humanly speaking, is manifestly very fond of color; for she has made nothing without it. Her skies are blue; her fields, green; her waters vary with her skies; her animals, vegetables, minerals, are all colored. She paints a great any of them in apparently superfluous hues, as if to show the dullest eye how she loves color.”

Ifs Made Shows Eye Water Nature Animal Sky Events Fields Color Blue Green Paint Vegetables Vary Superfluous Minerals Hue

Author:Leigh Hunt

“As the most generous vine, if it is not pruned, runs out into many superfluous stems, and grows at last weak and fruitless; so dote the best man, if he be not cut short of his desires and pruned with afflictions. If it be painful to bleed, it is worse to wither. Let me be pruned, that I may grow, rather than be cut up to burn.”

Ifs Men May Running Lasts Desire Grows Cutting Weak Let Me Painful Generous Stem Affliction Vines Superfluous

Author:Joseph Hall

“Pork - no animal is more used for nourishment and none more indispensable in the kitchen; employed either fresh or salt, all is useful, even to its bristles and its blood; it is the superfluous riches of the farmer, and helps to pay the rent of the cottager.”

Helping Used Animal Pay Blood Food Cooking Riches Kitchen Culinary Farmers Salt Indispensable Employed Nourishment Superfluous Pork

Book:The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

Source: The Modern Housewife: Or, Ménagère. Comprising Nearly One Thousand Receipts, for the Economic and Judicious Preparation of Every Meal of the Day, and Those for the Nursery and Sick Room; and Minute Directions for Family Management in All Its Branches. Illustrated with Engravings Including the Modern Housewife's Unique Kitchen, and Magic Stove

“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.”