Top 35 Superfluities Quotes
#1. We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
Plutarch
#2. Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.
Benjamin Franklin
#3. Wherever the Lord makes a provision, we are quite sure that there was a need for it. No superfluities clutter the covenant of grace.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#4. The conceptions of idle talk, of superfluities, and of vain ostentation, all designations of an irrational attitude without objective purpose, thus
Max Weber
#6. It is manifestly contrary to the law of nature, however defined, that a handful of people should gorge themselves with superfluities while the hungry majority goes in need of necessities.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#8. Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools than scholars, and enough to spare for government besides.
William Penn
#9. Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.
Swami Vivekananda
#10. The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.
Plutarch
#12. Trade is nothing else but a Commutation of Superfluities; for instance: I give mine, what I can spare, for somewhat of yours, which I want, and you can spare.
Dudley North
#13. Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? ... Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
John Gay
#14. The Stone is one, the Medicine is one, to which we add nothing, only in the preparation removing superfluities.
Thomas Aquinas
#15. If frugality were established in the state, and if our expenses were laid out to meet needs rather than superfluities of life, there might be fewer wants, and even fewer pleasures, but infinitely more happiness.
Oliver Goldsmith
#16. A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.
Eric Hoffer
#17. We, in short, propose to tax luxuries, monopolies, and superfluities, but we scrupulously avoid taxing the necessaries of life.
Winston S. Churchill
#18. The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
Eric Hoffer
#19. What man in his right senses, that has wherewithal to live free, would make himself a slave for superfluities? What does that man want who has enough? Or what is he the better for abundance that can never be satisfied.
Roger L'Estrange
#20. The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.
Plutarch
#21. Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
Virginia Woolf
#22. When family really needed you, nothing else mattered.
Shannon Stacey
#23. I am frankly sick and tired of the political preachers telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in A, B, C, and D. Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me?
Barry M. Goldwater
#24. People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done.
Cullen Hightower
#25. It's pretty amazing, someone having that kind of charisma - and it still happens in micro and macro forms - to convince a whole gaggle of people to kill themselves. Or put on robes and jump up and down. That takes a very charismatic leader.
Annie E. Clark
#26. Every new mother wonders, 'what will I pass on to my child'? Hunger is one inheritance no mother wants to give her child, yet millions of poor women have for generations. Help the World Food Programme break this cycle. No child should inherit hunger.
Rachel Weisz
#27. When we can only be happy for the success of those less fortunate, we are secretly undermining our own success.
Charles F. Glassman
#28. To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you.
Common
#29. M&A negotiations feel really fun. This is one of the biggest killers of companies, is they entertain acquisition conversations.
Sam Altman
#30. Her good weight was 150 pounds, and 178 pounds was her top. Consequently, Brenda had three different sets of clothes hanging in her closet, labeled GOOD, MEDIUM and FAT AS A HOG.
Fannie Flagg
#31. Idleness and lack of occupation tend - nay are dragged - towards evil ...
Hippocrates
#34. My dad went at 86. A car killed him. He was crossing the road.
Peter O'Toole
#35. But leisure has little to do with one's happiness. To the contrary, I've found that the happiest people have found some cause and they stride through life propelled by a commitment.
Alan Loy McGinnis
