“Necessity is the mother of invention.”
More from Aesop on Wisdom
“Do not waste your pity on a scamp.”
“Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.”
“The value is in the worth, not in the number.”
“Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.”
“Much wants more and loses all.”
“Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool”
“A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him.”
“The haft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagles own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction.”
“Kindness affects more than severity.”
“Injuries may be forgiven but not forgotten.”
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Ben Franklin
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Rudyard Kipling
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William Penn
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Sir Winston Churchill
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George Washington
14 quotes“I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy.”