Necessity never made a good bargain.

- Benjamin Franklin

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

- Bertrand Russell

Necessity makes an honest man a knave.

- Daniel Defoe

Physical contact is a human necessity.

- David Byrne

There is a lot of stuff now that is in bad taste, and I don't see the necessity for it all. We didn't have to do it in our time, and they don't have to do it now.

- Clint Walker

It is conceivable that what is unified form to the author or composer may of necessity be formless to his audience.

- Charles Ives

Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

- Christopher Buckley

Necessity creates everything in my life.

- Christian Louboutin

Monogamy is a possibility - and a necessity. Kids have got to have something they can rely on. You have got to have something you rely on.

- Bob Hoskins

Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.

- Bayard Taylor

Defence was an afterthought, prompted by necessity; and its introduction as a State function, though effected doubtless with a view to the strengthening of the State, was really and in principle the initiation of the State's destruction.

- Benjamin Tucker

Progress is what happens when impossibility yields to necessity.

- Arnold H. Glasow

An extravagance is something that your spirit thinks is a necessity.

- Bernard Williams

I don't see myself ever retiring, unless it's for something that I like better, and so far I like directing a lot but I don't see the necessity to retire from anything unless there's a really great alternative.

- Anjelica Huston

To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

- Alfred Russel Wallace

I, Alexander B. Campbell, make this statement of the cause of my death to relieve the coroner of the necessity of an inquest, and also let my friends know the motive that led me to take my own life.

- Alex Campbell

I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.

- Amy Sedaris

I like crafts that are made out of necessity because they're a little naive - you made it because you needed it.

- Amy Sedaris

You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly.

- Albert Brooks

From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.

- Ayn Rand