A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.
Fred Allen

A fancy watch, it's completely unnecessary. I just need a watch to tell the right time.
Judd Nelson

A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Carl Reiner

A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk, Jr.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
Jef I. Richards

All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.
James F. Cooper

And here a most heinous charge is made, that the nation has been burdened with unnecessary expenses for the sole purpose of preventing the discharge of our debts and the abolition of taxes.
Robert Walpole

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.
Erykah Badu

Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
Pablo Picasso

Awards are so unnecessary, because I think we get so much out of our work just by doing it. The work is a reward in itself.
Natalie Portman

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious.
Arthur Wellesley

Caring for children is a dance between setting appropriate limits as caretakers and avoiding unnecessary power struggles that result in unhappiness.
Charlotte Davis Kasl

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
Gail Sheehy

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

Conversation like television set on honeymoon... unnecessary.
Peter Sellers

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
Edward de Bono

Death is not more certainly a separation of our souls from our bodies than the Christian life is a separation of our souls from worldly tempers, vain indulgences, and unnecessary cares.
William Law

Every economy is uncertain. Referring to this or any economy as "uncertain" is an unnecessary and pessimistic redundancy.
Bo Bennett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett