New Year's Resolution Trial Run

I am thinking about making my first New Year's Resolution in many a year. In an attempt to make my outlook on life more positive, and less cynical, I'm considering altering my speaking habits to put an end to negative statements. For instance, why say, "Don't count your chickens before they hatch," when it serves just as well to say, "Wait until those chickens hatch before you count them."?

With that in mind, I've attempted to rephrase a few old sayings, to make them positive, affirming statements instead of negative warnings. I'd like all six of my faithful readers, if you're still there after these many weeks of silence, to let me know what you think. It's kind of like those quizzes you used to find on the back of cereal boxes. I even thought about putting the answers upside down at the bottom of the page. I got a real laugh thinking about everyone turning their computer monitors upside-down to read them. Then I realized how hard it would be for me to turn my monitor upside-down to type them...

Anyway, do these restated homilies make sense? Can you tell what I'm trying to say? Is anything lost in the translation?

You can have your cake as long as you eat someone else's.

When you come up with a new trick, you get to buy a new dog.

Cry over your milk while it's still in the glass. Laugh at it when you dump it all over the floor.

Give away all your wooden nickels.

You can squeeze turnip juice from a turnip.

You can make bricks as long as you have all the ingredients.

A leopard can change his direction.

You have a choice - chickens or omelets.  (OK - this is a mix of two pithy sayings.)

You can make a silk purse out of silkworm byproducts.

Dead horses are the best.

Nature loves brooms and mops.