NECESSITY QUOTES III

quotations about necessity


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A grand necessity elevates man; a small one degrades him.

L. J. NIVERNAIS
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attributed, Day's Collacon


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Sheer necessity -- the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.

RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN

The Critic

Tags: Richard Brinsley Sheridan


Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.

SALIS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention; but is the death of poetical.

WILLIAM SHENSTONE

Essays on Men and Manners


Whatever sorrows may be thy doom, bear them with patience, if necessity entail them.

HOMER

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Homer


The rule of necessity is a rule of law which states that necessity knows no law.... So the rule of necessity overrides all other laws. It in fact allows one to do that which would normally be against the law.

ROBERT PATRICK

"Technically, we are still in a state of emergency", Victoria Advocate, July 28, 2017


Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

THOMAS FULLER

Gnomologia

Tags: Thomas Fuller


Necessity -- thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.

WALTER SCOTT

Peveril of the Peak

Tags: Sir Walter Scott


From blind physical necessity, which is always and everywhere the same, no variety adhering to time and place could evolve, and all variety of created objects which represent order and life in the universe could happen only by the willful reasoning of its original Creator, Whom I call the Lord God.

ISAAC NEWTON

attributed, Our Humanist Heritage

Tags: Isaac Newton


As for "necessity" not based on reason but on pleasure, he declared that it was a sign of a spirit that was extinguished.

THOMAS OF CELANO

The Life of Saint Francis


I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

AGATHA CHRISTIE

An Autobiography

Tags: Agatha Christie


Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do.

CALANUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Necessity often has a brow of despair.

EDWARD COUNSEL

Maxims

Tags: Edward Counsel


Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal.

FELICITE ROBERT DE LAMENNAIS

The People's Own Book


Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

FRANCIS QUARLES

Enchiridion

Tags: Francis Quarles


Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity -- by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles.

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Notebooks

Tags: Leonardo da Vinci


Necessity imposes law, but does not herself receive it.

PUBLIUS SYRUS

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Publilius Syrus


Necessity does the work of courage.

GEORGE ELIOT

Romola

Tags: George Eliot


Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities ... are the greatest cozenage that men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

OLIVER CROMWELL

speech to Parliament, September 12, 1654

Tags: Oliver Cromwell


Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man.

QUINTUS CURTIUS RUFUS

De Rebus Gestis Alexandri Magni