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You cannot always get what you want

Proverbs and old sayings British about contentment, old, olderness

You cannot eat your cake and have it too

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You cannot get blood out of a stone

Proverbs and old sayings British about blood, old, olderness, contentment

You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You cannot make bricks without straw

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness, contentment

You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

Proverbs and old sayings about old, olderness, contentment

(You cannot) teach an old dog new tricks

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You cannot win them all

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

Proverbs and old sayings British about trap, old, olderness, contentment

You pay your money and you take your choice

Proverbs and old sayings British about money, contentment, old, olderness

Youth is wasted on the young

Proverbs and old sayings British about waste, youth, old, olderness

You may/might as well be hanged/hung for a sheep as (for) a lamb

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You must have rocks in your head

Proverbs and old sayings British about rocks, heads, old, olderness, contentment

You scratch my back and I will scratch yours

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You've got to separate the wheat from the chaff

Proverbs and old sayings British about old, olderness, contentment

You've made your bed and you must lie in/on it

Proverbs and old sayings British about lie, contentment, old, olderness

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Proverbs and old sayings British about knowledge, light, fire, fire brigade, old, olderness

Women have no chief.

Proverbs and old sayings

The first may become the last.

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