Necessity has no law.
Oliver Cromwell
There's just no concept of layering a thick-sleeved sweater under a coat in L.A. A coat is more of a gesture than a necessity. You know, in case... →
Sloane Crosley
Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
Daniel Defoe
Vice came in always at the door of necessity, not at the door of inclination.
Whoever wants me to talk, I'll come over and tell them about the necessity of preserving the Everglades.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Any biographer must of necessity become a pilgrim a peripatetic, obsessed literary pilgrim, a traveler with four eyes.
Leon Edel
Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
Thomas A. Edison
Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
Friedrich Engels
Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
Euripides
Necessity, the mother of invention.
George Farquhar