If you run after two hares, you will catch neither.
Duos lepores sequitur, neutrum capit.
Proverbs on a similar topic
- The more you get, the more you want.
- Too much of one thing is good for nothing.
- Never too much of a good thing.
- Money will do anything.
- Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
- Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the pleasant land.
- Cut your coat according to your cloth.
- Money is a good servant, but a bad master.
- Money makes the mare go.
- All is fish that comes to the net.
- Money gets money.
- A silver key can open an iron lock.
- Appetite comes with eating.
- He that goes a-borrowing, goes a-sorrowing.
- Give him an inch and he'll take an ell.
- Money has no smell.
- Grasp all, lose all.
- A pin a day is a groat a year.
- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
- Many small make a great.
- A pound of care will not pay an ounce of debt.
- Penny and penny laid up will be many.
- Self comes first.
- Store is no sore.
- He that has no money, needs no purse.
- The camel going to seek horns, lost his ears.
- I gave the mouse a hole and she is become my heir.
- You can have no more of a cat but her skin.
- Envy never enriched any man.
- Two bigs will not go in one bag.
Related proverbs
Similar proverbs in the same language
English
- Dogs that put up many hares kill none.
Similar proverbs in another language
Latin
- Duos lepores sequitur, neutrum capit. He follows two hares, and catches neither.
- Qui binos lepores una sectabitur hora, non uno saltem, sed saepe carebit utroque. He who chases two hares in one hour, not at least one, but often misses both.
- Qui duo vestigat, duo perdit seque fatigat. He who pursues two, loses two and becomes tired.
French
- Il ne faut pas courir deux lièvres à la fois. You can't have it both ways.
- Qui court deux lièvres n'en prend aucun. He who runs two hares catches none.
Czech
- Devatero řemesel, desátá bída. Nine crafts, the tenth misery.
- Kdo dva zajíce honí, žádného nechytí. He who chases two rabbits catches none.
- Kdo nejvíce řemesel umí, nejspíše vepsí bývá. He who knows the most crafts is most likely to write in the former.
- Mnoho řemesel, málo chleba. Many crafts, little bread.