Top 304 Necessities Quotes & Sayings

When we turn luxuries into necessities, we jeopardize our ability for contentedness.

Enjoy the necessities of life but eschew the excesses.

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities.

Avoid the philosophy and excuse that yesterday's luxuries have become today's necessities. They aren't necessities unless we ourselves make them such. . . . It is essential for us to live within our means.

The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.

Men aren't necessities, they're luxuries.

Some of necessities go astray, because for them there is no such thing as a right path.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.

Beauty rests on necessities.

The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting.

We have to go in places no body would ever think of going into were it not for the necessities of war.

Trumpets! Can you bring your... uh... extracurricular tubing necessities next rehearsal?

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

O America, how you've taken necessities from the masses to give luxuries to the classes.

What never vary are the necessities of being in the world, of having to labor and to die there.

What always seems miraculous is when aesthetic necessities yield an insight which otherwise I would have missed.

You have to live with the necessities of other people.

Good translations are one of the vital necessities of our time.

Ports are necessities, like postage stamps or soap, but they seldom seem to care what impressions they make.

In work we act under the predominant motive of external, rational necessities; in pleasure, under the predominant motive of other, equally general necessities of human nature. Rest or recreation is the element in which the personality seeks to renew its strength from these stimuli that exhaust the reserve of human resources. It's an element introduced into life by the person himself.

The more various our artificial necessities, the wider is our circle of pleasure; for all pleasure consists in obviating necessities as they rise; luxury, therefore, as it increases our wants, increases our capacity for happiness

Of all the animals with which this globe is peopled, there is none towards whom nature seems, at first sight, to have exercised more cruelty than towards man, in the numberless wants and necessities with which she has loaded him, and in the slender means which she affords to the relieving these necessities.

Necessity hath no law. Feigned necessities, imaginary necessities, are the greatest cozenage men can put upon the Providence of God, and make pretences to break known rules by.

God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

so few in reality are the true necessities of man

Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent.

Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.

Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious.

You cannot escape necessities, but you can overcome them.

Morals and lights are our first necessities.

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

Necessities can be many, but the one that is stronger is that which constrains you to win or to die.

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

A train of thought is never false. The falsehood lies deep in the necessities of existence.

Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.

The poorest still deserve help with life's basic necessities regardless of the quality of their government.

One of the primary necessities of the world for the maintenance of peace is the elimination of the frictions which arise from competitive armament.

Positive emotions are not trivial luxuries, but instead might be critical necessities for optimal functioning.

I don't think anyone is committing idolatry by wanting to live in any part of the world where they can enjoy the basic necessities of life. Granted, many of us here, in the U.S., have well beyond what constitutes basic necessities.

The most important misunderstanding seems to me to lie in a confusion between the human necessities which I consider part of human nature, and the human necessities as they appear as drives, needs, passions, etc., in any given historical period.

Nature has provided for the exigency of privation, by putting the measure of our necessities far below the measure of our wants. Our necessities are to our wants as Falstaff's pennyworth of bread to his any quantity of sack.

The necessities that exist are in general created by the superfluities that are enjoyed.

In the affluent society, no useful distinction can be made between luxuries and necessities.

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

A society that refuses to strive for superfluities is likely to end up lacking in necessities.

Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.

He has much who needs least. Do not create necessities for yourself.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Sufficient sleep, exercise, healthy food, friendship, and peace of mind are necessities, not luxuries.

He who has the base necessities of life should pay nothing; taxation on him who has a surplus may, if need be; extend to everything beyond necessities.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries.

Capitalism is about turning luxuries into necessities.

Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn.