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Quotes About Necessity

A businessman needs three umbrellas - one to leave at the office, one to leave at home, and one to leave on the train.
~ Paul Dickson
But, having a perfume and license, in general, is a financial necessity. A designer must, to reap back the money spent on prototypes and all that sort of thing.
~ Vivienne Westwood
money ... is only important when you have none; and though it may not be everything, it goes a very long way towards blocking up the winter draft of age.
~ Caitlin Thomas
We all have choices. (Astrid) No we don't, princess. Only people with money and influence have choices. For the rest of us, basic necessity dictates what we have to do to survive. (Zarek)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Money is time made tangible - the time invested in the earning of it. Taxation is the confiscation of the earner's time. Although some taxation is necessary, all taxation diminishes freedom.
~ George Will
Though mothers and fathers give us life, it is money alone which preserves it.
~ Ihara Saikaku
As long as you have money to live then it's not a terribly important thing. If you don't have enough to live, then it's very important thing.
~ Jared Polis
I spend five times more money at a chemist shop than I would at a fashion boutique. Clothes shopping is optional for me; shopping at a chemist store is a must.
~ Kajol
Money is the only thing you can use even if you don't have any. ... There's always a credit card.
~ Suze Orman
Money is a necessity; so is dirt.
~ Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Money is the necessity that frees us from necessity.
~ W. H. Auden
Money isn't everything...but it ranks right up there with oxygen.
~ Rita Davenport
We only pay for what we admire, want and recognize as necessary, even when a cup of coffee is priced at the same value of a book that can change our entire future.
~ Robin Sacredfire
She hated money! though she knew it was like blood and you needed it. Still, it was also like blood in that she often couldn't stand the sight of it.
~ Lorrie Moore, Bark: Stories
Money is like a sixth sense and you can't make use of the other five without it.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
Advertising is totally unnecessary. Unless you hope to make money.
~ Jef I. Richards
Their life is about getting enough money to put food on the table to feed their children, and that's it.
~ Ellen Burstyn
Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.
~ Christopher Bond
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness - to save oneself trouble.
~ Agatha Christie
In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.
~ C. Everett Koop
If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
~ David Rockefeller
Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.
~ Alex Faickney Osborn
Invention is the mother of necessity.
~ Thorstein Veblen
Necessity, who is the mother of our invention.
~ Plato