Henry Adams Quotes

Necessity has no law.

Necessity has its own rules

I'm a jacket man. And if I'm without one, I am kind of seriously disabled. I don't know how to operate in shirt sleeves.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Time is my greatest enemy.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

I want to say so much more than I have time for.

And erm, perhaps looking like this it was perhaps the only thing I could do.

It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

Necessity is blind until it becomes conscious. Freedom is the consciousness of necessity.

Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.

If you can, you must.

Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.

Time is running out on our opportunity to seize our opportunities and solve our problems.

Well you don’t have to do it.

But they are useless. They can only give you answers

Time is not a friend.

Often when you have less to work with, you do more.

It's terrible, a crutch, isn't it?

There's a difference when you want something and when you need something.

Some rules are there for a reason - but it's one thing to have a rule that protects and another to have rules that stifle.

You come to doing what you do by not being able to do something.

A decision will be made before it's too late or soon thereafter.

My voice and movements are restricted by the things I own.