Necessaries Quotes

20 quotes by 17 authors

Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. — Samuel Johnson
Indeed, we need not look back half a century to times which many now living remember well, and see the wonderful advances in the sciences… — Thomas Jefferson
I learn with great concern that [one] portion of our frontier so interesting, so important, and so exposed, should be so entirely unprovided with common… — Thomas Jefferson
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as… — Mark Twain
What money can buy has very little value beyond the necessaries of life. — George Griffith
Eight hours daily labour is enough for any human being, and under proper arrangements sufficient to afford an ample supply of food, raiment and shelter,… — Robert Owen
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too… — James Payn
I think experience has shown that privateers have done more toward distressing the trade of our enemies, and furnishing these States with necessaries, than Continental… — William Whipple
Money, when considered as the fruit of many years' industry, as the reward of labor, sweat and toil, as the widow's dowry and children's portion,… — Thomas Paine
Although most of us know Vincent van Gogh in Arles and Paul Gauguin in Tahiti as if they were neighbors -- somewhat disreputable but endlessly… — James A. Michener
It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all things required to meet wants which must be satisfied, while the… — Alfred Marshall
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often… — Samuel Johnson
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means… — Henry David Thoreau
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his… — Ben Jonson
Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries… — A. E. Housman
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries. — John Lothrop Motley
There never has been a time in our history when work was so abundant or when wages were as high, whether measured by the currency… — Benjamin Harrison
A large proportion of the human race, it is true, is obliged to work so hard in obtaining the necessaries that little energy is left… — Bertrand Russell
We have continued reason to express our profound gratitude to the Great Creator of All Things for numberless benefits conferred upon us as a people.… — John Tyler

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