Well-Known Sayings

Source: http://www.ccng.uwaterloo.ca/~pasward/Opinions/sayings.shtml

A selection of well-known sayings. The original forms are listed below.

1. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovated maneuvers.
2. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroids minified.
3. Members of an avian species of an identical plumage congregate.
4. Surveillance should precede saltation.
5. Pulchritude possesses sole cutaneous profundity.
6. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitantly departed lacteal fluid.
7. Freedom from incrustation of grime is continguous to rectitude.
8. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
9. Eschew the implement of correction and vititae the scion.
10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees.
11. All articles that coruscate with resplendance are not truly suritorous.
12. Where there are visible vapors having their prevalence in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.
13. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
14. Eleemonsynary deeds have their incipience intramurally.
15. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
16. Neophyte's serendipity.
17. A revolving lithic conglomerae accumulates no congeries of a small bryophtic plant.
18. The male presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
19. Abstention from any aleatory undertaking precludes a potential escalation of a lucrative nature.
20. Persons of imbecilic mentality divagate inparameter which cherubic entities approach with trepidation.
21. Elementary sartorial techniques initially applied preclude repetitious actions to the squares of three.
    

The original, simplified forms are:

1. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.
2. Twinkle, twinkle little star.
3. Birds of a feather flock together.
4. Look before you leap.
5. Beauty is but skin deep.
6. Don't cry over split milk.
7. Cleanliness is next to Godliness.
8. The pen is mightier than the sword.
9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.
10. A watched pot never boils.
11. All that glitters is not gold.
12. Where there's smoke, there's fire
13. Beggers can't be choosers.
14. Charity begings as home.
15. Dead men tell no tales.
16. Beginner's luck.
17. A rolling stone gathers no moss.
18. He who laughs last, laughs best.
19. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
20. Fools go where angels fear to tread.
21. A stitch in time saves nine.

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