Carman Bliss 1861-1929
Whether it be to failure or success, the first need of being is endurance - to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.

Crystal Billy
Women need a reason to have sex - men just need a place.

Hope Bob 1903-
(attributed)
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

Hubbard Kin 1868-1930
A friend that ain't in need is a friend indeed.

Kohl Helmut 1930-
We all need Europe, but Germans need it most of all.

Lennon John and McCartney Paul 1940- 1980 and 1942
‘When I'm Sixty-Four
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty four?

Nietzsche Friedrich 1844-1900
Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

Rubens Paul Alfred 1875-1917
‘Your King and Country Want You'
Oh! we don't want to lose you but we think you ought to go
For your King and your Country both need you so.

Ruskin John 1819-1900
No one can do me any good by loving me; I have more love than I need, or could do any good with; but people do me good by making me love them - which isn't easy.

Scott Sir Walter 1771-1832
The Lady of the Lake
He is gone on the mountain,
He is lost to the forest,
Like a summer-dried fountain,
When our need was the sorest.

Shakespeare William 1564-1616
King Lear
O reason not the need! Our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous.
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man's life is cheap as beast's.

Swanson Gloria 1897-1983
(of her passport photo)
If I look like this, I need the trip.

Theocritus c.310-c.250 BC
Man will ever stand in need of man.

Moliére 1622-1673
The Misanthrope
What's needed in this world is an accommodating sort of virtue

Putnam VI
The entire sum of existence is the magic of being needed by just one person.

Schulz Charles M. 1922-
Jogging is very beneficial. It's good for your legs and your feet. It's also very good for the ground.
It makes it feel needed.

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