“You can’t keep a good man down”
"You can't keep a good man down" is a popular saying that means a good person will persevere and triumph over adversity. The saying dates to the 1880s. "It's hard to keep a…
"You can't keep a good man down" is a popular saying that means a good person will persevere and triumph over adversity. The saying dates to the 1880s. "It's hard to keep a…
"You can't keep a good man down" is a popular saying from the 1880s. "'You can't keep a good market down.' some gleeful broker is alleged to have written on a…
Legislation has its limits, and it has long been known that legislation alone cannot change the innate character of citizens. "You can neither legislate a man into virtue nor vice" was…
"You can't live a full life on an empty stomach" is a food saying that has been printed on many images. "That makes about as much sense to me as trying to live a full life on an…
"You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you" was an inspirational saying by basketball coach John Wooden (1910-2010), from…
"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" is an old proverb. "You can't make a Hamlet without breaking a few eggs/egos/legs" is a theater joke. "You…
"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" is an old proverb. "You can't make a Hamlet without breaking a few eggs/egos/legs" is a theater joke. "You…
"You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs" is an old proverb. "You can't make a Hamlet without breaking a few eggs/egos/legs" is a theater joke. "You…
In 1948, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey (1902-1971) ran for president of the United States -- and lost again. After Dewey's defeat in November 1948, Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)…
The expressive flip side to "chicken salad" is "chicken feathers" (a euphemism for "chicken shit"). A difference "between chicken salad and chicken feathers"…
"You can't make everybody happy you're not a NUTELLA jar" was cited on Twitter on August 19, 2014. Nutella is the brand name of an Italian sweetened hazelnut chocolate spread.…
On the American television sitcom The Big Bang Theory, the episode "The Guitarist Amplification" that originally aired on November 9, 2009, the character Sheldon Cooper (actor Jim…
"You can't make the club in the tub" means that you can't make the team if you're always injured (and in the tub because of injury). "You can't make the club in…
"You can't out-exercise a bad/poor diet" means that if one's diet is poor, then exercise will not overcome that. "We all know that it is very difficult to out-exercise a…
Many people fart while on a treadmill. "You can't outrun a fart on a treadmill" was posted on Twitter on March 8, 2010, and the saying has been printed on several images. "Pro…
"You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree" has been attributed to American financier J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) since at least the 1980s, but there's no…
It's a simple bit of civics: "You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friends' noses." The silly saying has an unknown origin.…
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"You can play baseball, you can play basketball, you can play football, but you can't/don't play boxing," boxers frequently say. The expression implies that boxing is a much…
"You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first" is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. That is, one must fill one's self up before…