Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord
The more necessary a thing is for living beings, the more easily it is found and the cheaper it is; the less necessary it is, the rarer and dearer it is. Maimonides
Each man must have his I; it is more necessary to him than bread; and if he does not find scope for it within the existing institutions he will be likely to make trouble. Charles Cooley
Any president can start a war, and use the chaos of disorder that such a war creates as an indefinite argument for prolonging it. It's a war that keeps on giving. Failure means it's even more necessary to keep failing. Andrew Sullivan
It is more necessary to guard the mouth than the chest. German Proverb