Without death and decay, how could life go on?

Without death and decay, how could life go on?

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.

Our necessities are few but our wants are endless.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that read more

Thanne is it wysdom, as thynketh me,
To maken vertu of necessite,
And take it weel, that we may not eschu,
And namely that that to us alle is due.

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
[Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]

Necessity is the last and strongest weapon.
[Lat., Necessitas ultimum et maximum telum est.]

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
[Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]

To make necessity a virtue (a virtue of necessity).
[Lat., Necessitatem in virtutem commutarum.]