- “Necessity is the last and strongest weapon” –Livy Ab Urbe Condita. Bk. iv, ch28
- “Necessity weighs hard upon us” –Homer, Iliad Bk. vi, 1. 85
- “Necessity makes even cowards brave” –Thomas Day, Sandford and Merton, p. 44
- “You cannot escape necessities; but you can conquer them” –Seneca, Ad Lucilium. Epis. xxi, sec.3.
- “Necessity’s sharp pinch” –Shakspeare, King Lear ii, 4, 214.
The idea for the challenge and my selection of quotes were taken from p. 1666 of The Macmillan book of Proverbs, Maxims, and Famous Phrases. The book was “selected and arranged” by Burton Stevenson and published in 1976.
