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Proverbs
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[ Also see Catchphrases Laws of Life and Nature Old Sayings Proverbial Phrases Proverbs (General) ]

You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.
      - Proverb

You cannot tickle a hungry person.
      - Proverb, (Massai)

You cannot unscramble eggs.
      - Proverb, (North American)

You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.
      - Proverb

You cannot write in the chimney with charcoal.
      - Proverb, (Russian)

You come with a cat and call it a rabbit.
      - Proverb, (Cameroonian)

You compare the bee to the grasshopper!
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You compare the moorhen to the I swan.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You compare the tortoise to the hare.
      - Proverb

You count the sand.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You do not need a whip to urge on an obedient horse.
      - Proverb, (Russian)

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
      - Proverb

You don't get something for nothing.
      - Proverb

You don't have to put out the fire when all is burnt out.
      - Proverb, (Norwegian)

You don't put robbers to work in a bank.
      - Proverb, (American)

You don't show a fool a job half done.
      - Proverb, (Hebrew)

You give hay to the dog and bones to the ass.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You give the wolf the wether to keep.
      - Proverb

You have a head and so has a pin.
      - Proverb

You have broken my head and now you bring plaister.
      - Proverb, (Spanish)

You have come too late for the feast.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You have debts, and make debts still; if you've not lied, lie you will.
      - Proverb, (Spanish)

You have got your feet out of the mire.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You have hit the nail on the head.
      - Proverb

You have hit the point exactly.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You have left the sheep with the wolf for safe custody.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You have lent and not recovered; and if recovered, not so much; and if so much, not such; and if such, a mortal enemy.
      - Proverb, (Portuguese)

You have many strings to your bow.
      - Proverb

You have married a beauty? So much the worse for you.
      - Proverb, (Italian)

You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.
      - Proverb

You have spoilt the wine by adding water to it.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You have to separate the chaff from the wheat.
      - Proverb

You have to take life as it happens, but you should try to make it happen the way you want to take it.
      - Proverb, (German)

You hold an eel by the tail. [You are dealing with a slippery fellow.]
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You keep making that face and it'll stay that way.
      - Proverb

You know good manners, but you use but few.
      - Proverb

You know not what the evening may bring with it.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You let the cat out of the bag.
      - Proverb

You look for the horse you ride on.
      - Proverb, (Russian)

You made your bed, now lie in it.
      - Proverb, (American)

You make a mountain of a mole-hill.
      - Proverb

You make an elephant of a mouse.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You may always find an opportunity in your sleeve, if you like.
      - Proverb, (Danish)

You may as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb.
      - Proverb

You may as well give a good beating as a bad one.
      - Proverb, (French)

You may as well talk to the sea-shore.
      - Proverb, (Latin)

You may be a wise man though you can't make a watch.
      - Proverb

You may call that your own which no one can take from you.
      - Proverb, (Danish)

You may cook in small pots aw well as in large ones.
      - Proverb, (Danish)

You may ding the deil into a wife, but you'll never ding him out of her.
      - Proverb


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