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