NECESSITY

Related Subjects: Cause, Fate, Force, Motive, Poverty, Wants

1. Flying for life, one does not stickle about the vehicle.—CARLYLE, The French Revolution
   

2. One of his [Pittacus] sayings was, "Even the gods cannot strive against necessity."—DIOGENES LAERTIUS, Pittacus
   

3. Necessity can set me helpless on my back, but she cannot keep me
   there; nor can f our walls limit my vision.—MICHAEL FAIRLESS, The Roadmender
   

4. Necessity, the mother of invention.—GEORGE FARQUHAR, The Twin Rivals
   

5. And with necessity,
   The tyrant's plea, excus'd his devilish deeds.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

6. Where necessity pinches, boldness is prudence.—Proverb
   

7. Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.—Proverb

8. It is a fair degree of plenty to have what is necessary.—Proverb
   

9. A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
   

10. Necessity knows no law ex­cept to conquer.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

11. He that stands upon a slippery place
    Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.—SHAKESPEARE, King John

12. Necessity's sharp pinch!—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

13. As if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion.—SHAKESPEARE, King Lear
    

14. To make a virtue of necessity.—SHAKESPEARE, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    

15. In the ills of men
    There is none sorer than Necessity.—SOPHOCLES, Ajax
    

16. Human hopes and human creeds
    Have their root in human needs.—E. F. WARE, The Washerwoman's Song
    

17. Who, doomed to go in company with Pain,
    And Fear, and Bloodshed, miserable train!
    Turns his necessity to glorious gain.—WORDSWORTH, Character of the Happy Warrior