Search in folklore: necessity

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Necessity requires no decision.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Necessity is mother of every invention.

Proverbs and old sayings Mexican about invention, mother

Necessity turns lion into fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Necessity changes a lion into a fox.

Proverbs and old sayings Persian

Necessity makes the frog jump.

Proverbs and old sayings Portuguese

Necessity has nae law.

Proverbs and old sayings Scottish about law

Necessity knows no laws.

Proverbs and old sayings Vietnamese

Necessity can break iron.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish

Difficulties relate only to necessity.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about difficulties, americans

Want and necessity break faith and oaths.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about faith

God gives the will, necessity gives the law.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about law, god

Fancy requires much, necessity but little.

Proverbs and old sayings German

He forges a virtue on necessity.

Proverbs and old sayings Hungarian about virtue

He that buys the office of magistrate must of necessity sell justice.

Proverbs and old sayings Italian about justice, commerce

A wife is a luxury... a smart accountant a necessity.

Proverbs and old sayings about intelligence, wife

Make a virtue of necessity.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about virtue

Nothing is grievous which necessity enjoins.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about nothing

Spendthrifts are always of necessity greedy and covetous.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin

Make a virtue of necessity. [Claim credit for compulsory rectitude. ]

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about virtue

The driver of an ass must by necessity know its wind.

Proverbs and old sayings Moroccan