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Proverbs Beginning with Y

25 entries beginning with the letter Y.

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Y — Proverbs and Sayings

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You can only die once

You can take a horse to the water but you cannot make it drink.

You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy.

You can't put wine in old bottles.

You can't shout fire in a crowded theater

You can't tell a book by its cover.

You cannot catch old birds with chaff.

You cannot eat your cake and have it.

You cannot get blood from a stone.

You cannot judge a tree by its bark.

You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs.

You cannot make bricks without straw.

You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

You cannot serve God and Mammon

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

You cannot wash charcoal white.

You can’t get a quart into a pint pot,

You can’t run with the hare and hunt with the hounds,

You can’t shift an old tree without it dying,

You do not fatten a pig by weighing it

You don't get something for nothing.

You must eat a peck of dirt before you die.

You never know what you can do untill you try.

You pays your money and you takes your chances

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