Quotes
Quotes about Necessity
The deep of night is crept upon our talk,
And nature must obey necessity.
As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.
Necessity's sharp pinch!
Make a virtue of necessity.
And with necessity,
The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.
Necessity, the mother of invention.
Of the various executive abilities, no one excited more anxious concern than that of placing the interests of our fellow-citizens in the hands of honest men, with understanding sufficient for their stations. No duty is at the same time more difficult to fulfil. The knowledge of character possessed by a single individual is of necessity limited. To seek out the best through the whole Union, we must resort to the information which from the best of men, acting disinterestedly and with the purest motives, is sometimes incorrect.
Sheer necessity,--the proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Who, doomed to go in company with Pain
And Fear and Bloodshed,--miserable train!--
Turns his necessity to glorious gain.
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires,--Necessity and Free Will.
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.
God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love.
The three eldest children of Necessity: God, the World and love.
Were Love exempt from the militations of Necessity, he were greater than God and the World.
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
We give to necessity the praise of virtue.
It is a difficult thing for a man to resist the natural necessity of mortal passions.
Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them.
One of his sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."
Necessity has no law.
Others made a virtue of necessity.
I say: turn once more to the necessity to learn ... leave inarticulacy to the loathed nude apes up there: let us at least be clothed
Necessity never made a good bargain.
