Checking in with Aesop...........................

     
                            The Peacock and the Crane

A Peacock spreading its gorgeous tail mocked a Crane that passed by, ridiculing the ashen hue of its plumage and saying, "I am robed, like a kink, in gold and purple and all the colors of the rainbow;  while you have not a bit of color on your wings."  "True," replied the Crane;  "but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill."

Moral:  Fine feathers don't make fine birds