You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
Related:
- The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin with a silk
sow.
The same is true of money. -- Augustine's Law Number... - I:
The best way to make a silk purse from a sow's ear is to begin
with a silk sow.
The same is true of money. II: If today were half... - You can lead a yak to water but you can't teach an
old dog to make a silk purse out of a pig in a poke... - Bah! You can't make a sow's ear out of a cheap thug!"
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Ham re-iterates one of Circe's old complaints in "The... - Once I was sick, and I had to go to an ear, nose, and throat man to get
well.
There are ear doctors, nose doctors, throat doctors... - You are taking the wrong sow by the ear.
-- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)
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Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.... - I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse;
borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the... - If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make
something out of you.
Muhammad...
