“He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.”
Elizabeth Gaskell
“It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.”
Johannes Brahms
“When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous.”
Albert Einstein
“Superfluous branches We lop away that bearing boughs may live”
William Shakespeare
“Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer.”
“The superfluous is very necessary”
Voltaire
“Judicious omission is preferable to correct superfluity”
Walter Kidde
