A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

NECESSITY knows no law
Cf. L. necessitas non habet legem, necessity has no law.

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  1377 LANGLAND Piers Plowman B. xx. 10 Nede ne hath no lawe, ne neure shal falle in dette. c 1530 W. TYNDALE Answer to More B1 Two things are without law, God and necessity. a1555 N. RIDLEY Lamentation of Miserable Estate of Church (1556) D4 The latter reason.. includeth a necessitie which after the common sayinge hathe no law. 1680 DRYDEN Kind Keeper III. ii. Necessity has no Law; I must be patient. 1776 F. RHINELANDER Letter 23 Feb. in H. C. Van Schaack Life of Peter Van Schaack (1842) 54 Troops.. quarter themselves in any houses they find shut up. Necessity knows no law. 1864 MRS H. WOOD Trevlyn Hold II. xiv. Necessity has no law, and he was obliged to rise. 1939 ‘D. YATES’ Gale Warning vi. ‘“Don’t speak to the man at the wheel” is a very good rule.’ ‘So’, said I, ‘is “Necessity knows no law.”’ 1977 S. T. WARNER Kingdoms of Elfin 107 Necessity knows no law. I must admit it. From time to time, I flew. "necessity
  

need see (noun) a FRIEND in need is a friend indeed; (verb) GOOD wine needs no bush; a GUILTY conscience needs no accuser.
NEEDLES and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries, his trouble begins
□1843 J. O. HALLIWELL Nursery Rhymes of England 122 Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries his trouble begins. 1876 R. D. BLACKMORE Cripps III. 214 Cripps was come to a turn of the track—for it scarcely could be called a road—and was sadly singing to Dobbin and himself that exquisite elegiac—’Needles and pins, needles and pins, When a man marries, his trouble begins!’ 1952 ‘J. CANNAN’ (1983) Body in Beck vii. 165 Thank God I steered clear of females. Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries his trouble begins. Good God, where did I get that from? 2000 Washington Times 15 Nov. E12 (Herb & Jamaal comic strip) They say, ‘Needles and pins, needles and pins, when a man marries, his troubles begin,’ . . But I’ll tell ya, among the things they say, what I’m most curious about is . . who are ‘they’? ■ marriage