Bound by necessity. [ Cicero ]
Necessity has no law. [ Proverb ]
Necessity knows no law. [ Constance ]
Necessity becomes will. [ Ariosto ]
Nature means Necessity. [ Bailey ]
Necessity unites hearts. [ German Proverb ]
The argument of the weak. [ Sheridan ]
Nature must obey necessity. [ Julius Caesar ]
Necessity is a good school. [ Al-Anabari ]
Make a virtue of necessity. [ Burton ]
Necessity sharpens industry. [ Proverb ]
To maken virtue of necessity. [ Chaucer ]
Accident is veiled necessity. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]
Necessity is the tyrant's plea. [ Milton ]
Necessity does everything well. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
Necessity is stronger than duty. [ Seneca ]
Necessity dispensed with decorum. [ Proverb ]
A deed of necessity is not sinful. [ C. C. Goetner ]
There is no virtue like necessity. [ William Shakespeare ]
Necessity urges desperate measures. [ Cervantes ]
Necessity is stronger far than art. [ Aeschylus ]
Necessity makes even cowards brave. [ Proverb ]
Necessity, the mother of Invention. [ Wycherly ]
Nothing is stronger than necessity. [ Euripides ]
Necessity never made a good bargain. [ Franklin ]
Necessity, thou mother of the world! [ Shelley ]
Necessity does not submit to debate. [ [Garibaldi ]
Fate and necessity are unconquerable. [ Joubert ]
Necessity makes dastards valiant men. [ Robert Herrick ]
Necessity is a severe schoolmistress. [ Montaigne ]
Necessity is often the spur to genius. [ Balzac ]
Necessity is the mistress of the arts. [ Proverb ]
Necessity can make even cowards valiant. [ J. Hall ]
Necessity is stronger than human nature. [ Dionysius ]
Necessity - thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest promoter of invention. [ Scott ]
God, from a beautiful necessity, is love. [ Tupper ]
When necessity comes in turn modesty out. [ Proverb ]
Not even the gods contend with necessity. [ Simonides ]
Necessity, not pleasure, brings him here. [ Dante ]
Necessity is the only successful adviser. [ Charles Reade ]
Necessity knows no law except to conquer. [ Publius Syrus ]
Necessity is ever stronger than human law. [ Dionysius ]
We give to necessity the praise of virtue. [ Quinct ]
Fancy requires much, necessity but little. [ German Proverb ]
Necessity is the last and strongest weapon. [ Livy ]
Laws are powerful, necessity still more so. [ Goethe ]
God gives the will; necessity gives the law. [ Danish Proverb ]
Heaven knows, I had no such intent;
But that necessity so bowed the state.
That I and greatness were compelled to kiss. [ Shakespeare ]
Necessity seeks bread where it is to be found. [ Salis ]
Where necessity pinches, boldness is prudence. [ Proverb ]
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. [ St. Augustine ]
Necessity can sharpen the wits even of children. [ Timothy Dwight ]
It is necessity and not pleasure that compels me. [ Dante ]
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. [ H. W. Shaw ]
Necessity and opportunity may make a coward valiant. [ Proverb ]
Women are rakes by nature and prudes from necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
To hard necessity one's will and fancy (must) conform. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Even the gods are unable to contend against necessity. [ Simonides ]
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we quote. [ Emerson ]
Necessity is the last and the strongest of all weapons. [ Livy ]
Necessity imposes law, but does not herself receive it. [ Publius Syrus ]
Necessity makes the weak strong and the coward vaJiant. [ J. Ray ]
Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul. [ Thoreau ]
The power of necessity is greater than that of affection. [ Seneca ]
Whatever is beautiful is beautiful by an inner necessity. [ Pindar ]
A grand necessity elevates man; a small one degrades him. [ L. J. Nivernais ]
Fortune is but a synonymous word for nature and necessity. [ Bentley ]
The law of nature is the strictest expression of necessity. [ Moleschott ]
Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity. [ Plato ]
It is the beautiful necessity of our nature to love something. [ Douglas Jerrold ]
Hypocrisy becomes a necessity for those who live scandalously. [ De Finod ]
With necessity, the tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds. [ Milton ]
Necessity and chance approach not me, and what I will is fate. [ Milton ]
No burden is really heavy to a man which necessity lays on him.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. [ W. Pitt ]
There is no such conquering weapon as the necessity of conquering. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]
One alleviation in misfortune is to endure and submit to necessity. [ Seneca ]
Necessity rouses from sloth, and despair is often the cause of hope. [ Rufus ]
Let honor be to us as strong an obligation, as necessity is to others. [ Pliny ]
In times of necessity the words of the wise are worthy to be observed. [ Hitopadesa ]
Necessity is a sore penance; and extremity is as hard to bear as death. [ Cantacuzenus ]
Learn on how little man may live, and how small a portion nature requires. [ Lucan ]
Necessity may be a hard schoolmistress, but she is generally found the best. [ Smiles ]
Though fancy may be the patient's complaint, necessity is often the doctor's. [ Zimmermann ]
A bitter and perplexed What shall I do?
is worse to man than worse necessity. [ Coleridge ]
Soul of the world, divine Necessity, Servant of God, and master of all things. [ Bailey ]
Necessity may render a doubtful act innocent, but it cannot make it praiseworthy. [ Joubert ]
Necessity may be the mother of lucrative, but is the death of poetical invention. [ Shenstone ]
There is very great necessity indeed of getting a little more silent than we are. [ Carlyle ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law. [ Pascal ]
What fate imposes, men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind find tide. [ Shakespeare ]
The inventions dictated by necessity are of the earlier date than those of pleasure. [ Cicero ]
Whatever sorrows may be thy doom, bear them with patience, if necessity entail them. [ Homer ]
Work, according to my feeling, is as much of a necessity to man as eating and drinking. [ Wilhelm von Humboldt ]
The belly (i.e. hunger or necessity) is the teacher of arts and the bestower of genius. [ Pers ]
Necessity, thou art the best of peacemaker, as well as the surest prompter of invention. [ Scott ]
The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed. [ Zimmerman ]
Happy he for whom a kind heavenly sun brightens the ring of necessity into a ring of duty. [ Carlyle ]
Necessity is the only real sovereign in the world, the only despot for whom there is no law. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
The promise given was a necessity of the past; the word broken is a necessity of the present. [ Macchiavelli ]
Fear is the underminer of all determinations; and necessity, the victorious rebel of all laws. [ Sir P. Sidney ]
Nature had made occupation a necessity; society makes it a duty; habit may make it a pleasure. [ Capelle ]
Nothing proves better the necessity of an indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion. [ Balzac ]
Limitations refine as the soul purifies, but the ring of necessity is always perched at the top. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]
What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life. [ Tennyson ]
Man can make himself master over much, hardly can necessity and length of time subdue his spirit. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. [ S. Bailey ]
Constant and exclusive devotion to mere physical necessities, degrades man to the rank of an animal. [ Lamennais ]
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune. [ F. Quarles ]
We must endure our doom as easily as may be, knowing as we do, that the power of necessity is irresistible. [ Aeschylus ]
The wise are instructed by reason, ordinary minds by experience; the stupid by necessity; and brutes by instinct. [ Cicero ]
Stern is the on-look of necessity. Not without a shudder may the hand of man grasp the mysterious urn of destiny. [ Schiller ]
Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could. [ Landor ]
Earnest is the aspect of necessity. Not without a shudder is the hand of man thrust into the mysterious urn of fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]
When poverty and sickness come upon us, with no prospect of succor or relief, then we feel the pangs of our necessity. [ Gerard Guerin ]
Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. [ Dr. Johnson ]
There is one penny saved in four, between buying in thy necessity, and when the markets and seasons are fittest for it. [ Lord Burleigh ]
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants, it is the creed of slaves. [ William Pitt ]
Inexorable necessity has power over man; it has no dread of the immortals, who have houses in Olympus away from sad grief. [ Stoboeus ]
Rhyme that had no inward necessity to be rhymed; it ought to have told us plainly, without any jingle, what it was aiming at. [ Carlyle ]
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness. [ Pascal ]
Necessity is a strong rider with sharp spurs, who maketh the sorry jade do that which the strongest horse sometimes will not do. [ Calanus ]
We like morality when we are old, because we make of it a merit for the numerous privations which have become for us a necessity. [ Mme. de Salm ]
No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man. [ Barton ]
Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. [ Cicero ]
The uniformity which history exhibits in the conduct of man in all ages and climes, is alone compatible with the system of necessity. [ Sir T. C. Morgan ]
Female beauties are as fickle in their faces as in their minds; though casualties should spare them, age brings in a necessity of decay. [ Boyle ]
He that does not know those things which are of use and necessity for him to know, is but an ignorant man, whatever he may know besides. [ Tillotson ]
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 ]
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of Necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. [ Socrates ]
Necessity is a bad recommendation to favors of any kind, which as seldom fall to those who really want them, as to those who really deserve them. [ Fielding ]
Grief is a species of idleness, and the necessity of attention to the present, preserves us from being lacerated and devoured by sorrow for the past. [ Dr. Johnson ]
I would not despair unless I knew the irrevocable decree was passed; saw my misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Jeremy Collier ]
We should manage our fortune like our constitution; enjoy it when good, have patience when bad, and never apply violent remedies but in cases of necessity. [ La Roche ]
A true friend is distinguished in the crisis of hazard and necessity; when the gallantry of his aid may show the worth of his soul and the loyalty of his heart. [ Ennius ]
We should manage our fortune as we do our health - enjoy it when good, be patient when it is bad, and never apply violent remedies except in an extreme necessity. [ La Rochefoucauld ]
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Free Will. [ Carlyle ]
The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father, the former has intellect; the latter, genius, which itself is a kind of luxury. [ Schopenhauer ]
Oh! why is daily bread indispensable to the poet and to the artist! This inexorable necessity darkens for them the joys of nature and the radiations of the beautiful. [ Mme. Louise Colet ]
Necessity, that great refuge and excuse for human frailty, breaks through all law; and he is not to be accounted in fault whose crime is not the effect of choice, but force. [ Pascal ]
We ought to be thankful to nature for having made those things which are necessary easy to be discovered; while other things that are difficult to be known are not necessary. [ Epicurus ]
No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]
A man can no more justly make use of another's necessity, than he that has more strength can seize upon a weaker, master him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat, offer him death or slavery. [ J. Locke ]
When God will educate a man, he compels him to learn bitter lessons; He sends him to school to the necessities rather than to the graces, that by knowing all suffering he may know also the eternal consolations. [ Celia Burleigh ]
There is no contending with necessity, and we should be very tender how we censure those that submit to it. It is one thing to be at liberty to do what we will, and another thing to be tied up to do what we must. [ L'Estrange ]
What is difficulty? Only a word indicating the degree of strength requisite for accomplishing particular objects; a mere notice of the necessity for exertion; a bugbear to children and fools; only a mere stimulus to men. [ Samuel Warren ]
The habit of exaggeration, like dram-drinking, becomes a slavish necessity, and they who practise it pass their lives in a kind of mental telescope, through whose magnifying medium they look upon themselves and everything around them. [ J. B. Owen ]
By necessaries I understand not only the commodities which are indispensably necessary for the support of life, but whatever the custom of the country renders it indecent for creditable people, even of the lowest order, to appear without. [ Adam Smith ]
The iron hand of necessity commands, and her stern decree is supreme law, to which the gods even must submit. In deep silence rules the uncounselled sister of eternal fate. Whatever she lays upon thee, endure; perform whatever she commands. [ Goethe ]
We are ruined, not by what we really want, but by what we think we do. Therefore never go abroad in search of your wants; if they be real wants, they will come home in search of you. For he that buys what he does not want, will soon want what he cannot buy. [ Colton ]
There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover. [ Shenstone ]
Perfect friendship puts us under the necessity of being virtuous; as it can only be preserved among esteemable persons, it forces us to resemble them; you find in friendship the surety of good counsel, the emulation of good example, sympathy in our griefs, and succor in our distress. [ Mme. de Lambert ]
The physical plagues and the calamities of human nature have rendered society necessary. Society has added to the evils of nature; the imperfections of society have created the necessity for government, and government adds still further to the woes of society: this is the whole history of humanity. [ Chamfort ]
Occasion or Opportunity? The occasion is that which determines our conduct, and amounts to a degree of necessity; the opportunity is that which invites to action. We do things as the occasion requires, or as the opportunity offers. We may have occasion to write a letter without having the opportunity. [ Pure English, Hackett And Girvin, 1884 ]
Despair makes a despicable figure, and descends from a mean original. 'Tis the offspring of fear, of laziness and impatience; it argues a defect of spirit and resolution, and oftentimes of honesty, too. I would not despair unless I saw misfortune recorded in the book of fate, and signed and sealed by necessity. [ Collier ]
Necessity is always the first stimulus to industry, and those who conduct it with prudence, perseverance and energy will rarely fail. Viewed in this light, the necessity of labor is not a chastisement, but a blessing, - the very root and spring of all that we call progress in individuals and civilization in nations. [ Samuel Smiles ]
There is nothing more necessary to establish reputation than to suspend the enjoyment of it. He that cannot bear the sense of merit with silence must of necessity destroy it; for fame being the genial mistress of mankind, whoever gives it to himself insults all to whom he relates any circumstance to his own advantage. [ Steele ]
Manhood begins when we have, in a way, made truce with necessity; begins, at all events, when we have surrendered to necessity, as the most part only do; but begins joyfully and hopefully only when we have reconciled ourselves to necessity, and thus, in reality, triumphed over it, and felt that in necessity we are free. [ Carlyle ]
The word necessary
is miserably applied. It disordereth families, and overturneth government, by being so abused. Remember that children and fools want everything because they want judgment to distinguish; and therefore there is no stronger evidence of a crazy understanding than the making too large a catalogue of things necessary. [ Lord Halifax ]
The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge. [ Bulwer-Lytton ]
He who expects from a great name in politics, in philosophy, in art, equal greatness in other things, is little versed in human nature. Our strength lies in our weakness. The learned in books are ignorant of the world. He who is ignorant of books is often well acquainted with other things; for life is of the same length in the learned and unlearned; the mind cannot be idle; if it is not taken up with one thing, it attends to another through choice or necessity; and the degree of previous capacity in one class or another is a mere lottery. [ Hazlitt ]