Quotes of Nonessential - somelinesforyou

“ Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ A word to the wise is — unnecessary. ”

- Evan Esar

“ There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces. ”

- Sir Thomas Browne

“ The need for Government is the need for force; where force is unnecessary, there is no need for Government. ”

- Rose Wilder Lane

“ I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. It did not need to exist. ”

- Mitch Hedberg

“ The government is best which makes itself unnecessary. ”

- Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

“ A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done. ”

- Fred A. Allen

“ Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand. ”

- Bible

“ The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. ”

- Lin Yutang

“ It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials. ”

- Bruce Lee

“ Two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. ”

- Aldous Huxley

“ Thou whoreson zed, thou unnecessary letter! ”

- William Shakespeare

“ A word to the wise isn't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. ”

- Bill Cosby

“ A mother is not a person to lean on but person to make leaning unnecessary. ”

- Dorothy Canfield Fisher

“ A committee is a group of the unwilling, chosen from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. ”

- Unknown

“ A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ”

- Dorothy C. Fisher

“ It was just stupid and unnecessary and to be condemned. That won't affect the decisions of eight men (at the summit). ”

- Bob Geldof

“ I could have been more famous if I did all the glitzy things, but celebrity always seemed so unnecessary. ”

- Enya

“ In my judgment, the further investigation is simply unnecessary. ”

- John Warner

“ It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not? ”

- Arthur Miller

“ I shall always be glad to have seen it-for the same reason Papa gave for being glad to have seen Lisbon-namely, "that it will be unnecessary ever to see it again.". ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ”

- John Adams

“ I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics. ”

- Chris Patten

“ Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy. ”

- Bo Bennett

“ A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary. ”

- Fred Allen

“ Man's role is uncertain, undefined, and perhaps unnecessary. ”

- Margaret Mead

“ Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ”

- The Holy Bible

“ Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shrewd unto thee than men understand. ”

- Bible
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