Quotes About Superfluity

Mortality had remained a conveniently hypothetical concept, an idea to ponder in the abstract. Sooner of later the divestiture of such a privileged innocence was inevitable, but when it finally happened the shock was magnified by the sheer superfluity of the carnage.

man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.

Nothing exceeds like excess.

What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good.

Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary.

Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

Pour faire bonne mesure, j'en rajoute une couche. Le retour du jet d'ail, en quelque sorte.

a multitudinous mess of life's unnecessities.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

I tend to overdo things.

You can always take more than nothing

There is too much too much too much of everything. We have enough too. More than enough. We've had enough.

No, I thank you; I have had an elegant sufficiency of the numerous delicacies. Any more would be an unsophisticated superfluity, for gastronomic satiety admonishes me that I have reached the ultimate stage of deglutition consistent with dietetic integrity.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

The greatest crimes are not those committed for the sake of necessity but those committed for the sake of superfluity. One does not become a tyrant to avoid exposure to the cold.

I don't believe less is more. I believe that more is more. I believe that less is less, fat fat, thin thin and enough is enough.

El villano desconoce aquel estrato de la vida en que ésta ejercita solamente actividades suntuarias, supérfluas. Ignora el rebasar y el sobrar de la vitalidad. Vive atenido a lo necesario y lo que hace lo hace por fuerza. Obra siempre empujado; sus acciones son reacciones. No le cabe en la cabeza que alguien se meta en andanzas por lo que no le va ni le viene.

You get too much at last of everything: of sunsets, of cabbages, of love.

Only the superfluous is dirty.

I mean to say that there was, in fact, something unhealthy in the life of well-to-do people. No end of superfluity. Superfluous furniture and superfluous rooms in the houses, superfluous refinement of feelings, superfluous expressions.

Todo tan insuficiente, tan de más o de menos.

I'll tell you, what the world doesn't need is another Joe Bonamassa DVD.

The superfluous is very necessary.