Quotes About Necessity

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Honour is a luxury for aristocrats, but it is a necessity for hall-porters.

Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride.

Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.

But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded; for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadsul than its extinction.

Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less dreadful than its extinction.

Necessity, especially in politics, often occasions false hopes, false reasonings, and a system of measures, correspondingly erroneous.

Humanity, morality, decency, might be forgotten, but codfish must still be had for the use of the faithful in Lent and on fast days.

It isn't necessary to have relatives in Kansas City in order to be unhappy.

The humor is the sort born of ironic necessity; they use it to salve the wounds in insensitity.

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The rich take life one financial year at a time. The poor take life one meal at a time.

If men were necessary in the procreation process, they'd have gone the way of the dodo bird long ago.

I'd like to thank my parents for making this night possible. And my children for making it necessary.

The way I'd put it, " said Makin, "is that Rike can't make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.

We look for wine when we should be hunting bread.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.

Experience has taught me that manufacturers are now as necessary to our independence as to our comfort.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.

It always comes back to the same necessity: go deep enough and there is a bedrock of truth, however hard.

You need to eat, but you don't really need to eat filet mignon every night or buy bottles of champagne at a thousand a pop.