Quotes
Quotes about Necessity
Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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.
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
When we start deceiving ourselves into thinking not that we want something or need something, not that it is a pragmatic necessity for us to have it, but that it is a moral imperative that we have it, then is when we join the fashionable madmen, and then is when the thin whine of hysteria is heard in the land, and then is when we are in bad trouble.
Nature means Necessity.
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity.
Necessity is stronger far than art.
Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. [It., Necessita c'induce, e non diletto.]
Art imitates nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.
To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). [Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest. [Lat., Aequa lege necessitas Sortitur insignes et imos.]
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]
So spake the Fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deed.
Necessity is a violent school-mistress. [Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]
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!
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
Necessity when threatening is more powerful than device of man. [Lat., Efficacior omni arte imminens necessitas.]
Necessity makes even the timid brave. [Lat., Necessitas etiam timidos fortes facit.]
Stern is the visage of necessity. [Ger., Ernst ist der Anblick der Nothwendigkeit.]
Necessity--thou best of peacemakers, As well as surest prompter of invention.
It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity. [Lat., Malum est necessitati vivere; sed in necessitate vivere necessitas nulla est.]
