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Tag Name "Necessity" (983)

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Necessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity makes heroes of us all.
Mason Cooley
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Necessity may be the mother of lucrative invention, but it is the death of poetical invention.
William Shenstone
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Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
Michel de Montaigne
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
Tacitus
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Necessity may not be the opposite of freedom, and perhaps a man is most free when, instead of producing motives, he could only say, I am what I do.
C. S. Lewis
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Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Albert Einstein
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Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.
Alexander Hamilton
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Necessity knows no law.
Aesop
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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature.
Leonardo da Vinci
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Necessity inspires the fatal thought.
Vittorio Alfieri
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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.
Oliver Cromwell
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Necessity embitters the evils which it cannot cure.
Luc de Clapiers
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Necessity is the spur of genius.
Honore de Balzac
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
Robert Herrick
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Necessity does everything well.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Necessity has the face of a dog.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Necessity, oftener than facility, has been the mother of invention and the most prolific school of all has been the school of difficulty.
Samuel Smiles
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Necessity is God's veil.
Simone Weil
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Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.
Joseph Conrad
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Necessity knows no law I know some attorneys of the same.
Benjamin Franklin
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Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire we don’t really “need” anything new, so we only create what we want.
Chuck Klosterman
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
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