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• You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
• 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....
• Old friends are always best, less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
• 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....
• Badger, what kind of amplifier should I get?" "A BIG one.
  -- The Badger giving out Hi-Fi advice...
• 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...
• One of these days in your travels, a guy is going to come up to you and show you a nice
  brand- new deck of cards on which the seal is not yet broken, and this guy is going to offer to bet you that he can make the jack of spades jump out of the deck and squirt cider in your ear....
• A gentleman representing a Slavic country has offered me $
  100 million to destroy the American wheat crop. What do you say?...