What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!

An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down.

I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

A good horse makes short miles.

I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid.

Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will.