Quotes Tagged "necessity"

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.

Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.


What kind of life can you have in a house without books?

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Herein lies the supreme wisdom, human and divine; and the task of philosophy consists in teaching men to submit joyously to Necessity which hears nothing and is indifferent to all.

One does not have to be a philosopher to be a successful artist, but he does have to be an artist to be a successful philosopher. His nature is to view the world in an unpredictable albeit useful light.

Together, we form a necessary paradox; not a senseless contradiction.

Beauty Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought Is therapeutic. If, after several Applications, you do not find Relief, consult your family physician

A family which stays together for selfish reasons and not out of love does not stay together for long. When the family is humoured for convenience and necessity, its utility gets over soon. In such cases, children don’t need their parents when they grow up. A wife does not need her husband if she earns her livelihood. A husband may be attracted to a younger and more beautiful woman to fill his life. Parents do not want to waste time and money in bringing up their children who may leave them on growing up and won’t be available in time of need. An investment in a bank would perhaps be more reliable for old age than investment on children.

En un mot, pour tirer la loi de l'expérience, if faut généraliser; c'est une nécessité qui s'impose à l'observateur le plus circonspect. In one word, to draw the rule from experience, one must generalize; this is a necessity that imposes itself on the most circumspect observer.

My education taught me a lot, but nothing I needed to learn.

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

Work is a necessity for man. Man invented the alarm clock.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

Women of all classes are awakening to the necessity of self-support, but few are willing to do the ordinary useful work for which they are fitted.

Necessity never made a good bargain.