I enjoy looking up the origin of phrases.
Me too...look up "can't have your cake and eat it too". Dumbest origin of a phrase I ever looked up. I now hate that phrase.
Yeah, but the versions in other languages are wonderful:
Italian: to have the barrel full and the wife drunk
Malayalam: You want both the one on the roof, and the one in your armpit
Romanian: You can't reconcile the goat and the cabbage.
Serbian: You can't sit on two chairs with one butt
Tamil: You want to have both the moustache and to drink the porridge.