1386 Dutch Proverbs / Page 42
821.
Much wisdom is smothered in a poor man's head.822.
Mustard after the meal.823.
My shirt is closer to me than my cloak.824.
My shirt is nearer than my cloak.825.
Necessity breaks iron.826.
Necessity is the mother of invention.827.
Necessity knows no law.828.
Need makes the old wife trot.829.
Neither reprove nor flatter thy wife, where any one heareth or seeth it.830.
Never was hood so holy but the devil could get his head into it.831.
Never wear a brown hat in Friesland.832.
New brooms sweep clean.833.
No better masters than poverty and want.834.
No corn without chaff.835.
No cross, no crown.836.
No greater promisers than they who have nothing to give.837.
No house without its cross.838.
No mad dog runs seven years.839.
No man knoweth fortune till he dies.840.
No man learneth but by pain or shame.