| Y |
| Saying - Author |
| Yield to all and you will soon have nothing to yield. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| You are what you eat. - German Proverb |
| You become what you think about. - Buddha (Thanks to Ami Kapilevich for the correction) |
| You can do anything with children if only you play with them.- German (on parenting and children) |
| You can drive out nature with a pitchfork but she keeps on coming back. - Horace (65-8 BC) |
| You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| You can only die once. - Portuguese Proverb |
| You cannot carve rotten wood. - Chinese |
| You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. - Irish Proverb |
| You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. - unknown |
| You can't be a true winner until you have lost. - unknown |
| You can't beat a dead horse. - Richard Trench (1807-1886) |
| You can't build a relationship with a hammer. - unknown |
| You can't buy an inch of time with an inch of gold. - Chinese (on time and timeliness) |
| You can't buy love. - unknown |
| You can't fit a square peg in a round hole. - unknown |
| You can't get blood from a stone. - John Lydgate (c.1370-1451) |
| You can't have peace any longer than your neighbor pleases. - Dutch (on war and peace) |
| You can't have your cake and eat it too. - John Heywood (c.1497-1580) |
| You can't judge a horse by its harness. - Thomas Fuller (1608-1661) |
| You can't make bricks without straw. - unknown |
| You can't play all the time. - Aesop (c.620-560 BC) |
| You can't please everyone. - unknown |
| You can't see the whole sky through a bamboo tube. - Japanese (on basic truths) |
| You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth. - Russian (on gossip) |
| You can't stop a pig from wallowing in the mud. - Yoruba - West Africa (on character and virtue) |
| You can't teach an old dog new tricks. - unknown |
| You can't tell a book by its cover. - American Proverb |
| You can't win them all. - unknown |
| You catch more flies with honey than you do with vinegar. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| You could drive a stick man crazy. - unknown |
| You don't get anywhere unless you try. - unknown |
| You don't know what you've got until it's gone. - unknown |
| You have to earn respect. - unknown |
| You have to take the bitter with the sweet. - unknown |
| You make the road by walking on it. - Nicaraguan (on work) |
| You may delay but time will not. - Ben Franklin (1706-1790) |
| You may light another's candle at your own without loss. - Danish (on generosity) |
| You never fail until you stop trying. - unknown - thanks to agate man iwsy |
| You never know what lies right around the corner. - unknown |
| You never really know your friends from your enemies until the ice breaks. - Eskimo (on friends and foes) |
| You win some, you lose some. - unknown |
| You'll never do anything behind you that won't come up in front of you. - unknown, thanks to "riverrat" |
| Your own rags are better than another's gown. - Hausa (West African)(on self-reliance) |
| Your success and happiness lie in you...resolve to keep happy and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. - Helen Keller |
| Your time is the greatest gift you can give to someone. - unknown |
