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Years know more than books.Yelping curs will raise mastiffs.Yesterday will not be called again.Yorkshire born and Yorkshire bred, strong in the arm and weak in the head.You are a fool to steal if you can't conceal.You are a man among the geese when the gander is away.You are come of a blood and so is a pudding.You are of so many minds, you'll never be married.You are what you eat.You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones.You cackle often, but never lay an egg.You can buy 'em but they don't stay bought.You can call a man no worse than unthankful.You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back.You can have no more of a cat than his skin.You can have too much of a good thing.You can judge a man by the company he keeps.You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink. -You can often find in rivers what you cannot find in oceans.You can only lean against that which resists.You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.You can't fare well, but you must cry roast meat.You can't judge a book by its cover.You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.You can't make horn of a pig's tail.You can't please everyone.You can't polish a turd.You can't push on a rope.You can't put an old head on young shoulders.You can't put new wine in old bottles.You can't squeeze blood from a rock.You can't take blood from a stone.You can't teach an old dog new tricks.You can't tell a book by its cover.You can't win them all.You cannot catch old birds with chaff.You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.You cannot drive a windmill with a pair of bellows.You cannot eat your cake and have it.You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.You cannot get blood from a stone.You cannot have your cake and eat it.You cannot lose what you never had.You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.You cannot make a silk purse of a sow's ear.You cannot make bricks without straw.You cannot make people honest by Act of Parliament.You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.You cannot see the city for the houses.You cannot see the wood for the trees.You cannot serve God and mammon.You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.You cannot take a shirt from a naked man.You cannot teach an old dog new tricks.You cannot weld cake-dough to cast iron, nor a girl to an old man.You compare the tortoise to the hare.You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.You don't get something for nothing.You give the wolf the wether to keep.You have a head and so has a pin.You have hit the nail on the head.You have many strings to your bow.You have nobody to blame but yourself if you stumble more than once over the same stump.You have to separate the chaff from the wheat.You keep making that face and it'll stay that way.You know good manners, but you use but few.You let the cat out of the bag.You pays your money and you takes your choice.Your trumpeter is dead.Your windmill dwindles into a nutcrack.Youth and age will never agree.Youth and white paper take any impression.Youth is wasted on the young.Youth must be served.Youth will be served.Youth will have its course.Yule is come, and Yule is gone,
And we have feasted well;
So Jack must to his flail again,
And Jenny to her wheel. |
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