1. If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

2. Each vaporous mass suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.

3. It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle.

4. Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.

5. Deviation from the ordinary or common routine of existence is that which gives zest to man's cycle of existence.

All correct except 5, which is "Variety is the spice of life".

Here are some more of these. I'll supply the answers too, lest I be accused of going outside channels to post a new puzzle.

6. All that coruscates with resplendence will not assay auriferous. (All that glitters is not gold.)

7. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted. (Beggars can't be choosers).

8. Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony. (Dead men tell no tales.)

9. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not reach 212 degrees Fahrenheit. (A watched pot doesn't boil)

10. Neophite's serendipity. (Beginner's luck)

11. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a miniscule, verdant bryophyte. (A rolling stone gathers no moss)

12. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity. (Beauty is only skin deep)

13. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude. (Cleanliness is next to godliness).

14. It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid. (Don't cry over spilt milk).

15. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion. (Spare the rod and spoil the child).

16. The stylus is more potent than the rapier. (The pen is mightier than the sword).

17. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers. (You can't try to teach an old dog new tricks)

18. Surveillance should precede saltation. (Look before you leap)

19. Scintillate, scintillate, diminutive asteroid. (Twinkle,twinkle, little star).

20. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation. (He who laughs last, laughs best).

21. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow. (All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy).

22. Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles. (People who live in glass houses should not throw stones).

23. Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration. (Where there's smoke, there's fire).

24. Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes a potential escalation of a lucrative nature. (Nothing ventured, nothing gained.)

25. Missiles of ligneous and of nonmetallic mineral consistency have the potential to fracture my osseous structure, but malicious appellations are eternally innocuous. (Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.)

26. Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the prenatal ovoid structure. (Don't count your chickens before they hatch).

27. Disposition to inquiry deprived the feline of its vital state. (Curiosity killed the cat).

28. It is practicible to entice an Equus Caballus to a reservoir of liquid hydrogen oxide, but coercing him to imbibe is insuperable. (You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.)

29. Upon the non-presence of the Felis Catus the Mus Musculi proceed to engage in sportive capers. (When the cats away the mice will play.)

30. A buffoon and his accumulation of legal tender are expeditiously disunited, (A fool and his money are easlily parted.)

31. Exigency is the matriarch of ingenious contrivance. (Neccessity is the mother of invention).

32. Probity gratifies reflexively. (Honesty is its own reward.)

33. Promiscuity, controlled substances, and annepestic tempo. (Sex, drugs, and roll 'n' roll).

Posted by Dan on 2003-11-10 00:38:34