NECESSITY QUOTES IV

quotations about necessity


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The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

J. G. ZIMMERMAN
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Aphorisms and Reflections on Men, Morals and Things


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Most of us do not have incomes large enough to provide both the things we need and the things we want. We are forced to choose between our necessities and our luxuries. And, very foolishly, we choose to offer up the luxuries. Thus our existence becomes dull and monotonous. We can hardly be said really to live: our lives are lived for us--cut out and sewed together by the habits and customs of the class to which we belong.

BRUCE FAIRCHILD BARTON

More Power to You


Necessity's sharp pinch!

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

King Lear

Tags: William Shakespeare


Necessity inspires the fatal thought.

VITTORIO ALFIERI

Agamemnon

Tags: Vittorio Alfieri


Soul of the world, divine Necessity,
Servant of God, and master of all things.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

Tags: Philip James Bailey


We give to necessity the praise of virtue.

QUINTILIAN

Institutio Oratoria


When we are incapable of recognizing the laws of necessity, we believe ourselves to be free.

LUDWIG BÖME

attributed, Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists


I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity.

EURIPIDES

Hercules Furens

Tags: Euripides


If necessity is the mother of invention, it is no less the mother of crime; eternal justice is one thing, eternal love of bread and butter and other good things another; where it is a necessity of our nature to have, it is a weakness of our being to get.

CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE

attributed, Day's Collacon

Tags: Christian Nestell Bovee


Nothing is more necessary than the unnecessary.

ROBERTO BENIGNI

Life Is Beautiful


Necessity is a sore penance; and extremity is as hard to bear as death.

CANTACUZENUS

attributed, Day's Collacon


Omission to do what is necessary
Seals a commission to a blank of danger.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

Troilus and Cressida

Tags: William Shakespeare


My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK

"Necessity"


Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny.

FRIEDRICH SCHILLER

The Death of Wallenstein

Tags: Friedrich Schiller


Necessity can turn any weapon to advantage.

PUBLILIUS SYRUS

Moral Sayings

Tags: Publilius Syrus


Necessity, like electricity,
Is in ourselves and all things, and no more
Without us than within us; and we live,
We of this mortal mixture, in the same law
As the pure colorless intelligence
Which dwells in Heaven, and the dead Hadean shades.

PHILIP JAMES BAILEY

Festus

Tags: Philip James Bailey


A people never fairly begins to prosper till necessity is treading on its heels.

WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS

Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel for the Woods and the Wayside


Necessity sharpens industry.

A. L. LAVOISIER

attributed, Day's Collacon


Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

DANIEL DEFOE

Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe

Tags: Daniel Defoe


Necessity is a good school.

AL-ANABARI

attributed, Day's Collacon