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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair, hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day. I wasted time and now doth time waste me. -- William Shakespeare | |
| The superfluous is very necessary. -- Voltaire | |
| comment: A superfluous element of a source program included so the programmer can remember what the hell it was he was doing six months later. Only the weak-minded need them, according to those who think they aren't. | |
| A kiss is a course of procedure, cunningly devised, for the mutual stoppage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. | |
