Wednesday 19 December 2007

Adages

All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

= All that glitters is not Gold.

 

Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

= Beggars cannot be choosers.

 

Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

= Dead men tell no tales.

 

Neophite's serendipity.

= Beginner's luck

 

A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

= A Rolling Stone gathers no Moss.

 

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

= Birds of a feather flock together.

 

Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

= Beauty is only skin-deep.

 

Freedom from incrustations of crime is contiguous to rectitude.

= Cleanliness is next to Godliness.

 

It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

= Don't cry over Spilt Milk.

 

Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

= Spare the Rod and Spoil the Child.

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