| Author |
Quotes |
| Aeschylus | Necessity is stronger far than art. |
| Agatha Christie | I don't think necessity is the mother of invention -- invention . . . arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Necessity never made a good bargain. |
| Benjamin Franklin | Necessity has no law. |
| Bern Williams | An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity. |
| Dante Alighieri | It is necessity and not pleasure that compels us. |
| Dante Alighieri | The graveyards are full of indispensable men. |
| Euripides | Nothing has more strength than dire necessity. |
| Georg C Lichtenberg | If people should ever start to do only what is necessary millions would die of hunger. |
| Hadrianus Julius | To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity). |
| Jean Toomer | Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity. |
| John Burroughs | Without death and decay, how could life go on? |
| Jonathan Schattke | Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true -- but it's father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife. |
| Jonathan Swift | Necessity is the mother of invention. |
| Josh Billings | Our necessities are few but our wants are endless. |
| Karl Marx | Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious Freedom is the consciousness of necessity |
| Michael Eyquen de Montaigne | Necessity is a violent school-mistress. |
| Oliver Cromwell | 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 | It is not necessary for the public to know whether I am joking or whether I am serious, just as it is not necessary for me to know it myself. |
| Publilius Syrus | Necessity knows no law except to conquer. |
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