Hunting two Hares.

He who hunts two hares leaves one and loses the other. No one can do well or properly two things at once. “No man can serve two masters.”

French:—

“Poursuis deux lièvres, et les manques” (La Fontaine).

“On ne peut tirer à deux cibles.”

Latin:—

“Duos qui sequitur lepores, neutrum capit.”

“Simul sorbere ac flare non possum.”

“Like a man to double business bound,

I stand in pause where I shall first begin,

And both neglect.”

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.