Re: Word Play -- A Contest, A Contest...
Here are my answers.
1) All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
All that glitters is not gold.
2) Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.
Dead men tell no tales.
3) Individuals who make their abode in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrous projectiles.
People you live in glass houses should not throw stones.
4) It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.
Don’t cry over spilled milk.
5) Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
Spare the rod and spoil the child.
6) The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit.
A watched pot never boils.
7) Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
Beggars can’t be choosers.
8) Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.
Cleanliness is akin to Godliness.
9) Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.
Where there is smoke, there is fire.
10) Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
Beauty is only skin deep.
11) The writing implement is more potent than the claymore.
The pen is mightier than the sword.
12) Eleemosynary deeds have their initial incidence intramurally.
Charity begins at home.
13) Neophyte's serendipity.
Beginner’s luck.
14) The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
He who laughs last, laughs hardest.
15) Missiles of ligneous or quarried masses have the potential of fracturing osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me.
|