| Translation |
Proverb |
| 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. |
| The stylus is more potent than the rapier. |
The Pen is Mightier than the Sword. |
| It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers. |
You can't teach an Old Dog new Tricks. |
| Surveillance should precede saltation. |
Look before you leap. |
| Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim. (not a proverb) |
Twinkle twinkle little star |
| The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation. |
One who laughs the last, laughs the best. |
| Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a hebetudinous fellow. |
All work and No Play makes Jack (?) a Dull boy. |
| Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles. |
Those who live Glass Houses should cast no stones. |
| Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration. |
Where there's smoke, there's fire. |
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