Do you recognize these well known adages?

1.All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not

truly auriferous.

ANS: All that Glitters is not Gold.

2.Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

ANS: Beggars cannot be choosers.

3.Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

ANS: Dead men tell no tales.

4.Neophite's serendipity.

ANS: Beginner's luck

5 . A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries

of small, green, biophytic plant.

ANS: A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss.

6. Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to

congregate.

ANS: Birds of a feather flock together.

7.Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

ANS: Beauty is only skin-deep.

8. Freedom from incrustations of crime is contiguous to

rectitude.

ANS: Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

9. It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately

departed lacteal fluid.

ANS: Don't cry over Spilt Milk.

10. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

ANS: Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.

11.The stylus is more potent than the rapier.

ANS: The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.

12 It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a

superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

ANS: You cant teach an Old Dog new Tricks.

13. Surveillance should precede saltation.

ANS: Look before you leap.

14. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim. (not a proverb)

ANS: Twinkle twinkle little star

15.The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation

possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

ANS: One who laughs the last, laughs the best.

16. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without

interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a

hebetudinous fellow.

ANS: All work and No Play makes Jack (?) a Dull boy.

17. Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices

would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious

projectiles.

ANS: Those who live Glass Houses should cast no stones.

18. Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in

ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

ANS: Where there is smoke, there will be fire.

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"Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive."

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Quirks

A reporter walked up to a group of four guys on the street. There was a Saudi

Arabian, a Russian, a North Korean, and a New Yorker. He asked them "Excuse

me, what's your opinion of the food shortage?"

The Saudi replied "What's a shortage?"

The Russian asked "What' s food?"

The North Korean said "What' s an opinion?"

The New Yorker says: "What's excuse me?"

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