Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Necessity never made a good bargain

Necessity never made a good bargain

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have read more

My steps have pressed the flowers,
That to the Muses' bowers
The eternal dews of Helicon have given:
And trod the mountain height,
Where Science, young and bright,
Scans with poetic gaze the midnight-heaven.
Yet have I found no power to vie
With thine, severe necessity!

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

The chalice is ephemeral.
Jesus' blood eternal.

The chalice is ephemeral.
Jesus' blood eternal.

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
[Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]

Necessity is a violent school-mistress.
[Fr., C'est une violente maistresse d'eschole que la necessite.]