Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
Necessity could make a thief.
Necessity has nae law.
Necessity has no law.
Necessity hath no law.
Necessity is a great teacher.
Necessity is a strong weapon.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Necessity knows no law.
Necessity makes the frog jump.
Necessity never made a good bargain.
Necessity recognizes no law.
Necessity requires no decision.
Necessity seeks bread where it is to be
found.
Necessity teaches all things.
Necessity teaches arts.
Necessity teaches even the lame to dance.
Necessity teaches the naked woman to spin.
Necessity turns lion into fox.
Necessity unites hearts.
Neck or naething, the king loes nae cripples.
Neck or nothing.
Need excavates the trick.
Need gars naked men run, and sorrow gars
Websters spin.
Need hes no law.
Need is a bad negotiator.
Need is not governed by the law.
Need makes the naked man run and sorrow
makes websters spin.
Need makes the old wife trot.
Need makes the old woman galop [trot].
Need makes Virtue.
Need maks a man o craft.
Need maks the naked quean spin.
Need teaches a plan.
Need teaches things unlawful.
Needle and thread are half clothing.
Needle in a haystack.
Needles and pins, when a man is married
then trouble begins.
Needs must when the devil drives.
Ne'er cast a clout till May be out.
Ne'er lippen ower muckle to a new friend or
an auld enemy.
Ne'er misca' a gordon in the raws o'
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strathbogie.
Ne'er say Ill fallow to him you deal wi'.
Ne'er strive against the stream.
Negation proves nothing.
Neglect will sooner kill an injury than
revenge.
Negotiate a river by following its bends,
enter a country by following its customs.
Negotiate with your enemy whilst you are a
strong and formidable force, and he will
always fear and respect you, but
negotiate at the brink of defeat, and he
will trample you down.
Negotiation may cost far less than war, or
infinitely more: for war cannot cost more
than one's life.
Neighbour once over the hedge, neighbour
over it again.
Neighbours bring comfort in adversity but
only envy in success.
Neir is the Kirtle, but neirer is the Sark.
Neirest the heart, neirest the mouth.
Neirest the King, neirest the Widdie.
Neirest to the Kirk, farthest fra God.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
Neither a good friar for friend, nor a bad
one for enemy.
Neither be conceited, nor fall into despair.
Neither beautiful, nor young.
Neither beg of him who has been a beggar,
nor serve him who has been a servant.
Neither believed nor understood is the poor
who's offended.
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Neither break a law nor make one.
Neither draw me without cause, nor return
me without honour.
Neither fish nor flesh nor good red herring.
Neither fish nor meat.
Neither gives cherries to pigs nor advice to a
fool.
Neither handsome enough to kill nor ugly
enough to frighten away.
Neither money nor the devil can remain in
peace.