One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

You can't make a silk purse from a sows ear

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.

If you don't generate tension in the film to begin with... you can't really make a purse out of a sow's ear, you know.

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

Being a good psychoanalyst, in short, has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.