English Proverb or Saying Quotes

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

If you cannot have what you believe in, you must believe in what you have.

It is the misfortune of those who are concerned in conducting human affairs that, however pure and capacious their own conceptions may be, they must accommodate themselves to the circumstances with which they are environed and use the instruments that are within their reach.

Stupidly it should not be. It should be also nice. One must get along with that. Is however not necessary.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.

I think we ought to take the world as it is and not as we would like to have it.

I am willing ... when I cannot get all I wish, to take what I can get.

Political life must be taken as you find it.

If you cannot have the thing you want, you want the thing you have.

When you cannot have something, you make what you have work.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

In an ideal world, you'd never have to do things that are below your position, but this isn't an ideal world, and it's never going to be.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

I guess you deal with what you get.

Where there is no choice, we do well to make no difficulty.

We must take the world as it is and not as we would like it to be.

Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

One learns to itch where one can scratch.

We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Principles ... become modified in practice, by facts.

Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

Nobody was really happy but everyone could accept.

We have to accept the world as it is, not as we'd have it to be.

There's always going to be something. Can't be perfect.