Quotes About Necessity

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.

By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.

If you want to give a man something practical, consider tires. More than once, I would have gladly traded all the gifts I got for a new set of tires.

If any thing can be predicated as universally true of uncultivated man, it is that he will not labour beyond what is absolutely necessary to maintain his existence.

Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.

To the Bible men will return; and why? Because they cannot do without it.

Only people who are assured of daily food can concern themselves with matters of principle and ethic. A man will become a slave rather than starve.

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

The necessity of labor and conversation with many men and things to the scholar is rarely well remembered.

A man must be completely wanting in intelligence if he does not show it when actuated by love, malice, or necessity.

Great necessity elevates man, petty necessity casts him down

We have to get money. We have no choice. It cost money to eat.

If you buy things you do not need, soon you will have to sell things you need.

Wind is to us what money is to life on shore.

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

We need money, for sure, Athenians, and without money nothing can be done that ought to be done.

No man on earth is truly free, All are slaves of money or necessity. Public opinion or fear of prosecution forces each one, against his conscience, to conform.

Money is not everything but it ranks right up there with oxygen.

I was never interested in money. I always looked down on it. But now that I have less money, I see that without money, you cannot do much. Everything in the end is about money.

I think money is important for everyone, because the lack of it is so painful.

It's not that it's so good with money, but that it's so bad without it.

Money is a needful and precious thing

Money is necessary -- both to support a family and to advance causes one believes in.

Let not the tie be mercenary, though the service is measured in money. Make yourself necessary to somebody. Do not make life hard to any.