Daily quote by Necessity

• Necessitas non habet legem
  • Necessity has no law.
    • Anonymous Latin proverb which arose in the middle ages, leading to many variant expressions and extensions in many cultures.
  • Variants:
  • Necessitas dat legem non ipsa accipit.
    • Necessity gives the law without itself acknowledging one.
      • Publilius Syrus, Maxims, No. 444
  • Quia enim necessitas non habet legem, set ipsa sibi facit legume
    • Necessity knows no law but makes law.
      • Gratian, Decretum Gratiani
  • Necessity knows no laws.
    • Spanish proverb, as quoted in The International Thesaurus of Quotations (1970) edited by Rhoda Thomas Tripp, p. 429
  • الضرورات تبيح المحظورات
    • Necessity knows no restrictions.
      • Arabic Proverb
  • Necessity knows no laws, and a man must part with his last farthing to buy bread.
    • "C." in The Farmer's Magazine Vol. 1, No. 4 (October 1838), p. 271
  • Necessity knows no laws or customs.
    • Joseph Kinmont Hart, Mind in Transition : Patterns, Conflicts and Changes in the Evolution of the Mind (1938), p. 88