Surplus

Surplus may refer to:

  • "The Surplus", an episode of The Office
  • Surplus: Terrorized into Being Consumers, a documentary film
  • Economic surplus, one of various supplementary values
  • Government budget surplus
  • Economic surplus in surplus economics or surplus product in Marxian economics

Famous quotes containing the word surplus:

    The Indian is one of Nature’s gentlemen—he never says or does a rude or vulgar thing. The vicious, uneducated barbarians, who form the surplus of overpopulous European countries, are far behind the wild man in delicacy of feeling or natural courtesy.
    Susanna Moodie (1803–1885)

    Just as the French of the nineteenth century invested their surplus capital in a railway-system in the belief that they would make money by it in this life, in the thirteenth they trusted their money to the Queen of Heaven because of their belief in her power to repay it with interest in the life to come.
    Henry Brooks Adams (1838–1918)

    Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world’s worship.
    Ambrose Bierce (1842–1914)