Great Throughts Treasury

"You can?t make ten when there isn?t one to start with."

"You can?t have more in the plate than you have in the pot."

"You can?t make cheesecakes out of snow."

"You can?t pee on my back and tell me that it?s rain!"

"You can?t ride in all directions at one time."

"You can?t put ?thank you? in your pocket."

"You can?t patch up a torn friendship."

"You can?t outrun the moon."

"You cannot hold your head high with your hand out."

"You cannot pay a debt with a noble pedigree."

"You cannot pay a debt with a sigh."

"You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails."

"You can't dance at two weddings with one behind."

"You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money."

"You can't empty the ocean with a spoon."

"You can't make a shtreimel from a pig's tail."

"You could live, but they don?t let you."

"You don?t count the teeth in someone else?s mouth."

"You don?t mean the hagadah, but the dumplings"

"You don?t frighten me (lit., go threaten the bed bugs)."

"You don?t have to be wise to be lucky."

"You don?t play around with God! First, it?s not allowed and second, He won?t let you."

"You don?t show a fool a job half-done."

"You don't need intelligence to have luck, but you do need luck to have intelligence."

"You cannot draw water with a sieve."

"You low-life! (lit., outcast)"

"You can't make a hat out of a pig's tail."

"You never know the other fellow?s troubles."

"You may deal in rags and dress in velvet."

"You must not take offense at anything a fool does."

"You should choke on it."

"You should be like a lamp: you should hang during the day and burn during the night!"

"You should grow like an onion with your head in the ground."

"You piece of nothing! (humorous) (lit., you hunk of meat with two eyes!)"

"You should get a stomach cramp!"

"You should live and be well!"

"You don?t have to be pretty if you are charming."

"You should lose all your teeth except one, and that one should ache!"

"You should swell up like a mountain!"

"You should live so!"

"You?ll never amount to anything (you loser)!"

"You low-life! (lit., despicable person)"

"You?re a piece of meat with two eyes!"

"You should not ask a fool a question, nor give him an explanation."

"You shouldn?t know from evil."

"You?re all set! (lit., you?re on the horse!)"

"You?re climbing on the straight wall."

"You mustn?t pour salt on a wound."

"You can?t grow corn on the ceiling."

"You should have a nightmare! (lit., a dark dream on your head and on your hands and feet)."