You can't have your cake and eat it too

Meaning: You can't enjoy two mutually exclusive things simultaneously.

Origin: English proverb first recorded in 1538, originally 'eat your cake and have it too.'

Translations

• French: On ne peut avoir le beurre et l'argent du beurre (literally: You can't have the butter and the money for the butter)
• Spanish: No se puede estar en misa y repicando (literally: You can't be at mass and ringing the bells)
• Japanese: 二兎を追う者は一兎をも得ず (Nito wo ou mono wa itto wo mo ezu) (literally: He who chases two rabbits catches neither)

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