1492 Danish Proverbs / Page 146
- 1451. You cannot drink and whistle at the same time.
 - 1452. You cannot have peace longer than your neighbour chooses.
- 1453. You cannot have your cake and eat it.
- 1454. You cannot make a good archbishop out of a rogue.
- 1455. You cannot make a good hunting-horn of a pig's tail.
- 1456. You cannot pull hard with a broken rope.
- 1457. You cannot sail as you would, but as the wind blows.
- 1458. You cannot serve God and mammon.
- 1459. You cannot shear the sheep closer than the skin.
- 1460. You cannot shift an old tree without it dying.
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