However, beggars cannot be choosers; moreover, Sims appeared to consider that I was unduly conscientious.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
He, too, found his quarters none too comfortable, and he did not like Anstey-indeed, he feared he never should like him; but, he reflected with something of a sigh, beggars cannot be choosers.
"The Luck of Gerard Ridgeley"
Bertram Mitford
Among so few, we must not be choosers.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn