Top 50 Mother Of Necessity Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Mother Of Necessity

#1. Invention is the mother of necessity.

#2. Necessity, the mother of invention.

#3. Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of expression; that cries out to the imagination, and is the nurse of the invention whereof we term necessity the mother.

Edmund Clarence Stedman

#4. Necessity is the mother of bipartisanship.

Christopher Buckley

#5. The true creator is necessity, who is the mother of our invention.

Plato

#6. Necessity may well be called the mother of invention but calamity is the test of integrity.

Samuel Richardson

#7. Necessity, they say, is mother of invention, but fear, too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions.

Joseph Conrad

#8. Mother Teresa, when asked about her holiness or saintliness, always answers in a matter-of-fact way that holiness is a necessity of life--and explains that it is not the luxury of a few, such as those who take the course of religious life, but is "a simple duty of all. Holiness is for everyone.

Lucinda Vardey

#9. Necessity is the mother of invention but boredom is the mother of doing bafflingly stupid shit.

Jenny Lawson

#10. Necessity may be mother of invention, but fun is the father.

Alex Faickney Osborn

#11. Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.

Alison Gopnik

#12. Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary. The postmodern mother of invention is desire; we don't really "need" anything new, so we only create what we want.

Chuck Klosterman

#13. If necessity is the Mother of Invention, than adversity must surely be the Father of Re-invention.

Johnny Flora

#14. Remakes, in general, are a result of necessity being the mother of invention. They can't open movies consistently and break through the advertising clutter that's out there.

John Carpenter

#15. And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.

Aristotle.

#16. Necessity, thou mother of the world!

Percy Bysshe Shelley

#17. There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Don Tapscott

#18. It's true that necessity is the mother of invention. But for those of us without fathers, there is a deeper truth - necessity is the mother of self-invention.

Michael Hainey

#19. Necessity is the mother of all appetites. What you need in order to survive, you learn to love,

Jeaniene Frost

#20. Necessity might be the mother of invention, but restriction is the mother of efficiency.

Terry Gilliam

#21. RULES OF FAIRYLAND-BELOW
BEWARE OF DOG
ANYTHING IMPORTANT COMES IN THREES AND SIXES
DO NOT STEAL QUEENS
A GIRL IN THE WILD IS WORTH TWO IN CHAINS
NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF TEMPTATION
EVERYTHING MUST BE PAID FOR SOONER OR LATER
WHAT GOES DOWN MUST COME UP

Catherynne M Valente

#22. Necessity is the mother of delusion. For true love to exist there must be nothing that is necessary to it. Lovers have to live happily ever after, no matter what happens.

Billy Bob Stone

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

Roger Von Oech

#24. How true is that necessity is the mother of invention, how very true.

Yann Martel

#25. Necessity, mother of invention.

William Wycherley

#26. Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species.

Andrew Harvey

#27. As Napoleon Hill said, necessity may be the mother of invention but it is also the father of crime.

S. Hussain Zaidi

#28. Necessity is the mother of taking chances.

Mark Twain

#29. I don't know if fury can compete with necessity as the mother of invention, but I recommend it.

Gloria Steinem

#30. Necessity is often the mother of balls

Nora Roberts

#31. I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Agatha Christie

#32. 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

#33. Necessity is very often the mother of romance.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#34. Poverty is the mother of invention

Sunday Adelaja

#35. Necessity is the mother of all invention.

Albert Einstein

#36. The girls put their wits to work, and - necessity being the mother of invention - made whatever they needed.

Louisa May Alcott

#37. The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#38. Experiences are everything. And businesses must create experiences that mean something. If necessity is the mother of invention, then vision is the father of innovation.

Brian Solis

#39. Want has been the great schoolmaster of the race: necessity has been the mother of all great inventions.

Orison Swett Marden

#40. The truth is that a woman who chooses not to have children has generally engaged the question of a mother's responsibilities to a degree of seriousness not previously explored when motherhood was simply a natural necessity.

Elisabeth Badinter

#41. Marriages that made out of love (so-called "love-matches") have error as their father and misery (necessity) as their mother.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#42. We say that necessity is the mother of invention, and no country has more of a necessity to develop clean power than China.

Thomas Friedman

#43. Boredom, not the will, is the mother of change. Necessity is the father.

Mason Cooley

#44. Luxury, not necessity, is the mother of invention. Every artifact is somewhat wanting in its function, and that is what drives its evolution.

Henry Petroski