What was once to me mere matter of the fancy now has grown the vast necessity of heart and life.
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Necessity knows no law except to conquer.
Syrus
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
Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
There is no virtue like necessity.
William Shakespeare
Necessity makes even the timid brave.
Sallust
Necessity is the mother of invention, it is true, but its father is creativity, and knowledge is the midwife
Jonathan Schattke
Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity
Democritus
Necessity takes impartially the highest and the lowest.
Horace
Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen
Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
Gilbert K. Chesterton