Rodgers Dictionary of Proverbs
You can't drive straight on a twisting lane.
You can't eat "almost."
You can't eat the rice cake in the picture.
You can't escape death and guests.
You can't escape your destiny.
You can't expect both ends of a sugar cane
to be as sweet.
You can't fare well, but you must cry roast
meat.
You can't feed your donkey only when you
need to ride it.
You can't fight City Hall.
You can't fill your belly painting pictures of
bread.
You can't find stupidity in the forest.
You can't fit a round peg in a square hole.
You can't flee your lot nor share it with
another.
You can't fly with one wing.
You can't force anyone to love you or lend
you money.
You can't free a fish from water.
You can't get at the precious sago without
first breaking the bark.
You can't get blood out of a stone.
You can't get blood out of a turnip.
You can't get rice by pounding bran.
You can't get there from here.
You can't grease a "pig" so many times that
he can't be greased one more time.
You can't hatch chickens from fried eggs.
You can't have it both ways.
You can't have meat without the bone.
You can't have more bed-bugs than a
blanket-full.
You can't have more bugs than a blanketful.
You can't have two faces under one hat.
You can't have two forenoons in the same
day.
You can't have your cake and eat it
You can't have your cake and eat it too.
You can't heal stubbornness.
You can't hide behind your finger.
You can't hide the smoke when the house is
burning.
You can't hold another fellow down in the
ditch unless you stay down there with
756
him.
You can't inject new ideas in a man's head
by cutting it off.
You can't jest an enemy into a friend, but
you can jest a friend into an enemy.
You can't judge a book by its cover.
You can't jump a swamp before you reach it.
You can't jump from one tree to another but
you can from one man to another.
You can't keep a bull in the Kraal.
You can't keep a word of thanks in your
pocket.
You can't keep the birds from flying over
your head, but you can keep them from
building a nest in your hair.
You can't kid your conscience.
You can't kill a dog just to save a cat's tail.
You can't kill your way into heaven.
You can't lead anyone further than you have
gone yourself.
You can't live a long life and remain
upright.
You can't load a small boat with heavy
cargo.
You can't look at the stars while you are
walking if you have a stone in your shoe.
You can't lose what you haven't got.
You can't love Thetis and Galatea at the
same time.
You can't make a good shaft of a pig's tail.
You can't make a rattle with a single walnut
in a sack.
You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's
ear.
You can't make an omelette without
breaking eggs.
You can't make bricks without straw.
You can't make cheesecakes out of snow.
You can't make horn of a pig's tail.
You can't make pancakes without breaking
eggs.
You can't measure a snake until it's dead.
You can't measure the whole world with
your own yardstick.