“Necessity never made a good bargain.”– Benjamin Franklin Related Quotes “It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”– H. L. Mencken “They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one’s country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.”– Ernest Hemingway “A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”– Nelson Mandela