Arab Proverb Quotes

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

Necessity has no law.

Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

My decision on this matter is as certain and final as death and the staggering New Deal taxes.

Truth is eternal, unchanging, though circumstances may and do operate to give a different colour to it, in our view, at different times. And truth will prevail, and those who do not yield to it must be destroyed by it.

Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

Necessity has the face of a dog.

I had no choice in the decision to make myself available. I was not always doing things I wanted to do.

To hard necessity ones will and fancy must conform.

Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.

May be is very well, but Must is the master. It is my duty to show justice without recompense.

If you can, you must.

Pasture comes before prayer.

Necessity is the strongest of things, for it rules everything.

Everything that is not forbidden is compulsory.

Power is the near neighbour of necessity.

Necessity knows no Sunday.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Nothing is absolute, with the debatable exceptions of this statement and death.

Not even Ares battles against necessity.

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

If something is true, no amount of wishful thinking will change it.

The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.