The superfluous is very necessary. - Voltaire
Eliminate something superfluous from your life. Break a habit. Do something that makes you feel insecure. - Piero Ferrucci
The vitality of art is its capacity for infinite expansion. One form doesn't preclude another any more than the existence of Mozart makes the existence of Bach superfluous. - Lloyd Alexander
Under a red desert sky all thought seems superfluous. - Marty Rubin
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. - Ingrid Bergman
A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. - Oliver Herford
Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. - Leonardo da Vinci
Islam appears to me like a perfect work of architecture. All its parts are harmoniously conceived to complement and support each other; nothing is superfluous and nothing lacking; and the result is a structure of absolute balance and solid composure. - Muhammad Asad