That's what children are for—that their parents may not be bored.
Superfluity was the only relationship I could establish between these trees, these hedges, these paths. Vainly I strove to compute the number of the chestnut trees, or their distance from the Velleda, or their height as compared with that of the plan...
Whatever respect photography may once have deserved is now superfluous in view of its own superfluity.
It is the superfluous things for which men sweat, - superfluous things that wear our togas theadbare, that force us to grow old in camp, that dash us upon foreign shores.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
I love the idea of 3D, but it's completely superfluous to most stories.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
As for plenty, we had not only for necessity, conveniency and decency, but for delight and pleasure to superfluity.
Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous.
Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.
I am one of those for whom superfluity is a necessity.
I don't live in Los Angeles and I don't do a lot of superfluous press.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
It is not hard to compose, but what is fabulously hard is to leave the superfluous notes under the table.
God stands out in the universe as the most glaring of all superfluous sore thumbs.
One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it.
Art is a mind-game that we do to make our lives easier. If it isn't for that, it becomes superfluous.
Ivanov: No, my clever young thing, it's not a question of romance. I say as before God that I will endure everything - depression and mental illness and ruin and the loss of my wife and premature old age and loneliness - but I cannot tolerate, cannot...
