Modesty/necessity

Famous quotes containing the words modesty and/or necessity:

“Although modesty is natural to man, it is not natural to children. Modesty only begins with the knowledge of evil.”
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778)

“If necessity is the mother of invention, then resourcefulness is the father.”
—Beulah Louise Henry, U.S. inventor. As quoted in Feminine Ingenuity, ch. 13, by Anne L. MacDonald (1992)