PROVERBS IN DISGUISE II

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

The intentionally sesquipedalian sentences below can be reduced to simple proverbs.

1. Desist from tabulating the progeny of fowl prior to the materialization of their offspring.

2. A single ornithological specimen secure in the manual appendage, exceeds in pecuniary appraisal double the number harbored in the bramble.

3. Fallibility is heir to mortals; remission of transgression characterizes the celestial.

4. An opportune enclosing of an interstice effects the redemption of an ennead.

5. Become a manufacturer of an agrarian product while the diurnal luminary is effulgent.

6. Consign not the entirety of your ovarian products to a common receptacle.

7. Peregrinate to the Occident, stripling.

8. A philological unit addressed to the sagacious requires no augmentation.

 

9. He who evinces levity with chronological finality does so superlatively.

10. Refrain from relegating to a subsequent diurnal occasion that which may be effectuated momentarily.

Answers:

 

1. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

2. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.

3. To err is human; to forgive divine

4. A stitch in time save nine.

5. Make hay while the sun shines.

6. Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

7. "Go west, young man." 

8. A word to the wise is sufficient.

9. He who laughs last laughs best.

10. Don't put off until tomorrow what you can do today.