Famous Necessity Quotes in English

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Not even the gods fight against necessity.

Necessity has no law.

Necessity relieves us from the embarrassment of choice.

- Luc De Clapiers

Necessity, the mother of invention.

William Wycherley

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.

- Michel De Montaigne

Necessity is the theme and inventors of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

- Leonardo Da Vinci

Necessity often has a brow of despair.

- Edward Counsel

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.

- Wellins Calcott

Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.

E. B. White

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

- Daniel Defoe

Necessity never made a good bargain.

- Benjamin Franklin

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

- Francis Quarles,

Necessity moderates more troubles than reason.

- Luc De Clapiers, 

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

- William Pitt

Necessity is a sore penance; and extremity is as hard to bear as death.

- Cantacuzenus

Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity.

- Epicurus

Necessity does the work of courage.

- George Eliot

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger.

- William Shakespeare

If necessity is the mother of invention then failure is the father of success.

- Andrew Eborn

Great necessities call out great virtues.

- Abigail Adams

Necessity Proverbs

Necessity makes the frog jump.

Portuguese Proverb

Necessity never made a good bargain.

- Albanian Proverb

Necessity breaks iron.

- Dutch Proverb

Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found.

- German Proverb

Necessity teaches all things.

- German Proverb

Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant.

- Italian Proverb

Necessity breaks the law.

- Hungarian Proverb

Necessity teaches arts.

- German Proverb

Necessities never end.

- Kikuyu Proverb

Necessity is a strong weapon.

- Latin Proverb

Necessity could make a thief. . . .

- Darkovan Proverb

Necessity teaches even the lame to dance.

- German Proverb

Necessity requires no decision.

- Latin Proverb

Necessity can change a lion into a fox.

- Iranian Proverb

Necessity is a great teacher.

- Mexican Proverb

Necessity becomes will.

- Italian Proverb

Necessity unites.

- German Proverb

Necessity turns lion into fox.

- Persian Proverb

Necessity unites hearts.

- German Proverb

Where necessity speaks it demands.

- Russian Proverb

He who wants to have arms and necessities can take them himself.

- Corsican Proverb

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

- Italian Proverb

Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy and covetous.

- Latin Proverb

Difficulties relate only to necessity.

- Albanian Proverb

Fancy requires much, necessity but little.

- German Proverb

Make a virtue of necessity.

- Latin Proverb

He who has the necessities has no shame.

- African Proverb

While yearning for excess we lose the necessities.

- Persian Proverb

Where necessity speaks it demands.

- Russian Proverb

You can't escape necessity.

- Traditional Proverb

He forges a virtue on necessity.

- Hungarian Proverb

God gives the will, necessity gives the law.

- Danish Proverb

A true friend should be like a privy, open in necessity.

- Traditional Proverb

Whoever buys useless things will soon be selling his necessities.

- Sicilian Proverb