That which is crooked cannot be made straight. 
Přísloví na podobné téma
- Old habits die hard.
- Nature will have its course.
- As a man lives, so shall he die, as a tree falls, so shall it lie.
- A crow is never the whiter for washing herself often.
- An ape is ne'er so like an ape, as when he wears a doctor's cape.
- The ass loaded with gold Still eats thistles.
- What good can it do an ass to be called a lion?
- The cask savours of the first fill.
- A kite will never be a good hawk.
- Bring a cow to the hall and she will run to the byre.
- Send a fool to France, and a fool he'll come back.
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Latina
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Osse radicatum raro de carne recedit.
Zakořeněná kost jen zřídka ustupuje z masa.
Francouzština
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Ce qui est courbé ne peut se redresser.
Co je ohnuté, nelze narovnat.
Němčina
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Krumme Sachen kann man nicht gerade machen.
Křivé věci nelze dělat rovně.