you cannot put the same shoe on every foot

English

Etymology

Coined by Publilius Syrus

Proverb

you cannot put the same shoe on every foot

1. What works in one situation does not necessarily work in all situations.
   • 1921, John Harold Sears, Trust Estates as Business Companies, →ISBN, page 416:

     Application of the adage that "you cannot put the same shoe on every foot" produces no hardship whatsoever, since the terms of the trust may be made exactly to fit the business to be undertaken.

   • 2012, Jayson Williams, Humbled Letters from Prison, →ISBN, page 230:

     What I tell these misinformed inmates is that you cannot put the same shoe on every foot.

   • 2014, James Gunn, Some Dreams Are Nightmares, →ISBN:

     Publilius Syrus said it a long time ago: You can't put the same shoe on every foot.