Quotes of Superfluous - 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 mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary. ”

- Dorothy C. Fisher

“ A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ 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

“ 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

“ To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin. ”

- Thomas E. Lawrence

“ We must beware of needless innovations, especially when guided by logic. ”

- Winston Churchill

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

- Unknown

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

- Aldous Huxley

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary. ”

- Peter Sellers

“ Nothing in life is more remarkable than the unnecessary anxiety which we endure, and generally create ourselves. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

“ Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all. ”

- Richard Baxter

“ Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything. ”

- Anonymous

“ Violence is unnecessary and costly. Peace is the only way. ”

- Julius Kambarge Nyerere

“ Art is the elimination of the unnecessary. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ There is moderation even in excess. ”

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- John Warner

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

- Margaret Mead

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

- Fred Allen

“ Society has come to believe that the term 'crooked CEO' is redundant. ”

- Robert Miller

“ 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

“ Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war. ”

- John Adams

“ 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

“ It is needless to enter into many reasons for quashing the conviction, when one alone is sufficient. ”

- Lord Mansfield
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