A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.
Henry Ward Beecher

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.
Rowan Atkinson

Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Benjamin Franklin

Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Mark Twain

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.
Margaret Mead

For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities.
John Updike

For one cause or another, it has become necessary to impose restrictions upon the use of many commodities, including not a few of the necessities of life.
William Lyon Mackenzie King

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Frank Lloyd Wright

Great necessities call out great virtues.
Abigail Adams

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.
Aldous Huxley

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.
Alexander Hamilton

Inflation is bringing us true democracy. For the first time in history, luxuries and necessities are selling at the same price.
Robert Orben

It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
Johann Arndt

Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
Eartha Kitt

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
Dalai Lama

Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries.
Cher

No one should have to choose between medicine and other necessities. No one should have to use the emergency room every time a child gets sick. And no one should have to live in constant fear that a medical problem will become a financial crisis.
Brad Henry

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
Carl Sandburg

Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
Baruch Spinoza

Our necessities never equal our wants.
Benjamin Franklin