You can't make a horn of a pig's tail.

More proverbs about Wisdom

• A pin a day is a groat a year. Small daily expenses accumulate into significant yearly costs without conscious budgeting…
• The pitcher does not go so often to the water, but it comes home broken at last. Repeated exposure to risk eventually results in failure, no matter how fortunate previous…
• Sit in your place, and none can make you rise. Stability and dignity come from accepting your own position rather than desperately seeki…
• A place for everything, and everything in its place. Organized systems prevent chaos; knowing where things belong eliminates wasted time searc…
• Make not a toil of your pleasure. Pursuing enjoyment through rigid discipline defeats its purpose; leisure requires spontan…
• Don't stop the plough to catch a mouse. Abandoning important long-term work for trivial immediate concerns wastes effort and dela…