Alternative form of proverbs run in pairs

If something one wishes to be done cannot be commanded done, one must find another way to achieve one's goal.

(operations) A service policy in which the first to arrive for service receives the service first.

Alternative form of smell like a rose

Alternative form of smell like a rose

Bad things or situations always come in groups or streaks, they never come in a single way.

A fictional ghost in A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; it visits Ebenezer Scrooge in order to show his impending fate of death and loneliness in a future Christmas that is ultimately avoided.

(idiomatic) A person's past wrongdoings will return to negatively affect them.

To be revived after dying. / To return after being presumed dead. / (chiefly sports, idiomatic) To experience a resurgence after one's productive years are assumed to have ended.

Synonym of come from a good place