You Can't win without playing - E2MQ Answers

The intrepid Monday Morning Quiz-master, Dorian Adams of San Francisco, has done it again. He offered no fewer than 26 You Can't aphorisms, 25 excluding Col. Jessep's, "You Can't handle the truth."

Dorian also offered, You Can't...

...hurry love
...judge a book by its cover
...take it with you
...make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
...please everyone
...prove a negative
...break a broken heart
...fight city hall
...take the sky away from me
...go home again
...improve on god
...be neutral on a moving train
...do that on television
...keep a good man down
...lose what you never had
...manage what you don't measure
...outsmart crazy
...fix stupid
...outrun grace
...polish a turd
...polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter :-)
...rollerskate in a buffalo herd
...take a shower in a parakeet cage
...eat your cake and have it too
...win them all

Not included in his list are:

And definitely, You Can't be in...

And to these we offer a few old favorites...

You Can't...

...have it both ways

...get blood out of a stone

...make an omelette without breaking eggs

...make a silk purse out of a sow's ear

...run with the hare and hunt with the hounds

...shake hands with clenched fist

...tell which way the train went by looking at the track

...win arguments by interrupting speakers

...have a rainbow without rain

...pick up two melons with one hand

...fool all the people all of the time

...sip soup with a knife

...see the sky through a bamboo tube

...measure the sea with a shell

...cheat an honest man

...catch a cub without going into the tiger's den

There is one You Can't that you can't say, and that is...

"You can't teach an old dog new tricks."

To that we say, "Humbug," and direct your attention to

http://newfleas.blogspot.com/