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A bit of fun for the verbose.........

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bossybritches · 06/03/2008 21:43

Shamelessly pinched from elsewhere

Can you work out what these well known sayings are?

  1. Similar sire, similar scion.
  1. Tenants of vitreous abodes ought to hurl no lithoidal fragments.
  1. It is not proper for mendicants to be indicatrous of preferences.
  1. Compute not your immature gallinaceans prior to their being produced.
  1. It is fruitless to become lacrymous because of scattered lacteal fluid.
  1. Glean gramineous matter for fodder during the period that the orb of the day is refulgent.
  1. Pulchritude does not extend below the surface of the derma.
  1. Not all coruscating articles are fashioned from aureate metal.
  1. Each canine passes through his period of pre-eminence.
  1. Freedom from guile or fraud constitutes the most excellent principle of procedure.

  2. Consolidated, you and I maintain ourselves erect; separated, we defer to the law of gravity.

  3. You cannot estimate the value of the contents of a bound, printed narrative or record from its exterior vesture.

  4. Folks deficient in ordinary judgment scurryingly enter areas on which celestial beings dread to set foot.

  5. A feathered creature clasped in the manual members is equal in value to a brace in the bosky growth.

  6. The individual of the class Aves, arriving before the appointed time, seizes the invertebrate animal of the group Vermes.

  7. Socially oriented individuals tend to congregate in gregariously homogeneous groupings.

  8. One may address a member of the Equidae family toward aqueous liquid, but one is incapable of compelling him to quaff.

  9. Forever refrain from enumerating the dental projections of a bequeathed member of the Equidae family.

  10. One Pyrus Malus per diem restrains the arrival of the Hippocratic apostle.

  11. Fondness for notes of exchange constitutes the tuberous structure of all satanically inspired principles.

  12. Supposing one primarily fails to be victorious: bend further efforts in that direction.

  13. Be adorned with the pedal encasement that gives comfort.

  14. Prudence and sagacity are the worthier condiments of intrepid courage.

  15. He who expresses merriment in finality expresses merriment excellent either in equal quality.

  16. A beholden vessel never exceeds 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

  17. A rotating lithoidal fragment never accrues bryophytic plants.

  18. Everything is legitimate in matters pertaining to ardent affection and armed conflict between nations.

  19. Exercise your visual faculty prior to executing a sudden transition in podiatrous position.

  20. An excess of individuals skilled in the preparation of edibles impairs the quality of the fluid porridge-like fatty deposits retained in the vessel for steeping purposes.

  21. An over-avid thirst for knowledge destroyed the life substances of a small, soft-furred, flesh-eating mammal often domesticated and kept as a companion.

  22. A person who seldom has occasion to utilize his mental processes, plus his units of current exchange, are very shortly required to depart each other's company.

  23. Circumstances sometimes compel a person who lives by relieving others of property and units of current exchange to seize and control one of his own kind.

  24. An opportune application of a well-honed steel sliver penetrated by a fine, stringlike length of spun cotton preserves one from similar applications of an odd composite number.

OP posts:
samja · 06/03/2008 21:53
  1. Too many cooks spoils the broth
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:53
  1. fools rush in where angels fear to tread
JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:54

25 a watched pot never boils

Clarabumps · 06/03/2008 21:54
  1. a watched pot never boils
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:54
  1. a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
  2. the early bird catches the worm
JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:54

28 look before you leap

bossybritches · 06/03/2008 21:55

Dee NOOOO!

As I said C &P'd from elswhere......I've had it for nearly a week!!!!

OP posts:
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:55
  1. birds of a feather flock together
  2. you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink
girlfrommars · 06/03/2008 21:56
  1. you can lead a horse to water ut you can't make it drink
girlfrommars · 06/03/2008 21:56
  1. don't look a gift horse in the mouth
JRocks · 06/03/2008 21:56

27 all is fair in love and war

mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 21:57
  1. never look a gift horse in the mouth
  2. an apple a day keeps the doctor away
Califrau · 06/03/2008 21:59

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mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 22:01
  1. love of money is the root of all evil
  2. if at first you don't succeed, try, try again
  3. the valour one
  4. he who laughs last, laughs longest
  5. a watched pot never boils
  6. a rolling stone gathers no moss
Califrau · 06/03/2008 22:01

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RiojaLover75 · 06/03/2008 22:01
  1. No point crying over spilt milk.
  1. Beauty is only skin deep.
  1. Do not judge a book by its cover.

  2. The early bird catches the worm.

  3. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

  4. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

GrinningSoul · 06/03/2008 22:04
  1. a fool and his money are soon parted

  2. a stitch in time saves 9

mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 22:05
  1. all's fair in love and war
  2. look before you leap
  3. too many cooks spoil the broth
  4. curiosity killed the cat
  5. a fool and his money are easily parted
  6. beggars cannot be choosers???
  7. a stitch in time saves nine
mylovelymonster · 06/03/2008 22:07

ooh, I liked that

got any more?

sorkycake · 06/03/2008 22:11

got all but 23, what is it?

RubyRioja · 06/03/2008 22:12

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WigWamBam · 06/03/2008 22:16

32 is "It takes a thief to catch a thief", surely?