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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.