PROVERBS IN DISGUISE III

The Word's The Thing

Dr. Louis D. Appel 

Can you extract the simple proverb from these intentionally grandiloquent sentences?

1. Be careful. He's a lupine creature accoutered in ovine vestments.

2. A superannuated oaf affords no replication.

3. Be it cirrus, stratus, cumulus, or nimbus, each has an argent stratum.

4. A single instance of salutary comportment merits reciprocation.

5. The object of a bibliophile's affection cannot be appraised by its integument.

6. His cacophonous outburst is more deleterious than the occlusion of his maxilla and mandible.

7. Precede saltation with scrutiny.

8. Avian homogeneity effects gregariousness.

9. Unpretentiousness notwithstanding, no alternative topographical entity supersedes one's inveterate habitation.

10. One lacking in cognitive skills and his pecuniary resources are quickly put asunder.

Answers:

 

1. He's a wolf in sheep's clothing.

2. There's no fool like an old fool.

3. Every cloud has a silver lining.

4. One good turn deserves another.

5. You can't judge a book by its cover.

6. His bark is worse than his bite.

7. Look before you leap.

8. Birds of a feather gather together. 

9. Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

10. A fool and his money are soon parted.