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you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink

możesz zaprowadzić konia do wody, ale nie zmusisz go do jej wypicia

You can't have it both ways

Musisz się na coś zdecydować

you can't have your cake and eat it

nie można mieć wszystkiego

You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

you can't make an omlette without breaking eggs

nie można zjeść ciastka i nadal go mieć

you can't teach an old dog new tricks

nie przesadza się starych drzew

you can't tell a book by its cover

nie sądź po pozorach

you made your bed, now sleep in it

jak sobie pościelesz, tak się wyśpisz

You never know what you've got till it's gone

Nigdy się nie wie tego, co się ma, póki się tego nie straci

you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours

ręka rękę myje
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You are what you eat.

You buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones.

You can have too much of a good thing.

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

You can’t please everyone.

You can’t put new wine in old bottles.

You can’t win them all

You cannot catch old birds with chaff.

You cannot get a quart into a pint pot.

You cannot get blood from a stone.

You cannot lose what you never had.

You cannot make bricks without straw.

You cannot put an old head on young shoulders.

You cannot run with the hare and hunt with the hounds.

You don’t get something for nothing.

You never know what you can do till you try.

You never miss the water till the well runs dry.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

You should know a man seven years before you stir his fire.

You win a few, you lose a few.

Young folks think old folks to be fools, but old folks know young folks to be fools.

You catch more flies with honey than with vinegar

Youth is wasted on the young