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• 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 -- Norman R....
• 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 as good as tomorrow is supposed to be, it would probably be twice as good as yesterday was....
• 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.
  -- Opu...
• Bah! You can't make a sow's ear out of a cheap thug!
  -- Ham re-iterates one of Circe's old complaints in "The Badge...
• 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, gynecologists, proctologists--any place you got a hole there's a guy who specializes in your hole....
• You are taking the wrong sow by the ear. -- Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) -- Don Quixote, Part i, Book iii, Chap.
  iv...
• I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse
  borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable....
• If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
  -- Muhammad Ali...