Top Superfluous Quotes
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman
Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
Andrzej Wajda
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Voltaire
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Ludwig Quidde 
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. 
Boris Vian 
Will Durant 
Andrzej Wajda 
Edward Gibbon 
David Hilbert 
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A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Ingrid Bergman 
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Also a great part of Polish industry proved to have existed only to support the Soviet military industry, and it became superfluous and incapable of being transformed into anything else. We did not foresee that or the magnitude of these phenomena.
Andrzej Wajda
58% of people like this quote
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
Johannes Brahms
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What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Some pacifists have carried the sound idea of the prime importance of security too far, to the point of declaring that any consideration of disarmament is superfluous and pointless as long as eternal peace has not been attained.
Ludwig Quidde
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Thinking has become a superfluous exercise... purely internal, without compelling force, more or less a game.
Jacques Ellul
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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
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