Pedantic Proverbs
(Created and compiled by Budhisatvah Harlow and the students of Mill River Union High School)

 

Below are some well-known proverbs, lines, and cliched sayings dressed up in an academic kind of muddled gobbledygook. See how many of the expressions you can restore to their original, simple, familiar forms. Email me to get the answers, or clues if you wish.

 

  1. Example: Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minific,
    Fain would I fathom your nature specific!
    Exaultedly set in ether capacious,
    A reasonable facsimile of a gem carbonaceous! 
  2. Answer: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

  3. Propitiously initiated is semi-implemented.
  4. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
  5. Surveillance should precede saltation.
  6. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
  7. It is bootless to become lachrymose about precipitously decanted lactal fluid.
  8. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contagious to rectitude.
  9. The ultimate objective vindicates deployment of intermediate agencies.
  10. The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
  11. Poltroons expire on multitudinous occasions in anticipation of their demise.
  12. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a super-annuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
  13. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
  14. A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary technique vitiate the potable concoction produced by steeping certain comestibles in liquid.
  15. Neophyte’s serendipity!
  16. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structure, but appellations will eternally remain innocuous.
  17. It is not within possibility or existing potential to derive the essence (liquid) of human life from petrous or non-metallic material.
  18. The intrinsic value of an avian creature in one’s outer extremity (i.e., the prehensile one) is double that of one in the shrubbery.
  19. One may escort a modern-day eohippus to Adam’s ale; however, it is impossible to compel this domesticated creature to intake fluid.
  20. Precipitancy fabricates offscourings (i.e., non-utilitarian or non-aesthetic materials).
  21. Anthropoids retain a predilection for aberrancy.
  22. Unrestrained labium immerse aquatic launches.
  23. If originally one does not prevail, he should endeavor and re-endeavor afresh.
  24. Twice the iniquity does not equal the equity or vindication.
  25. Dual anterior bodily extremities are higher in quality than a single one.
  26. I cannot presume that I have consumed the indivisible entity!
  27. It is impossible to pass judgement on an incunnable, codex or other construct of printed matter without first examining its interior.
  28. One fourteenth of a shilling (old count) reserved shall be one one-hundredth of a German thaller compensated.
  29. Procuring various impacts for varied populace.
  30. The fleshy pome of the pyrus malus consumed in a twenty-four hour period restrains the visitations of the medical specialist.
  31. One would be more fulfilled if one had become amorously inclined futilely than if one had not ever done so.
  32. It is better to produce tardily as opposed to total abstention.
  33. The food of the graminivorous quadrupeds appears without fail to possess more verdure within the neighboring bucolic paddock.
  34. Enumerating one’s poultry in anticipation of incubation is futile.
  35. Inoculation in a small avoirdupois measure possesses the worth of an antidote in four times the quadruplication of that same avoirdupois measure.
  36. The precocious avian seizes the annelid.
  37. (Such will occur simultaneously to) that time that the Inferno achieves absolute zero.
  38. Lay aside the crosier and mollycoddle the bratling. (Alternative statement: relent with the caduceus and depredate the moppet.)
  39. A three-squared effort may be conserved by a single stroke of petit point, of herringbone, or of fagoting.
  40. The tempest is toddering angoras and curs.
  41. The tabby has proprietary rights to his lingual apex.
  42. Permit soporific canines to retain their current states.
  43. Thou hast reaped the singularly valid object, infant! Yea, verily.
  44. Intergalactic alternative life form, impart [a] dispatch [to] your localized or accustomed habitat.
  45. This one--the commonly applied diminutive form of whose baptismal or family name is daintily risible echo of the Militant Archangel’s moniker--covets the object in question!
  46. Mendicants are not so situated that they may be finicky.
  47. One may not posses one’s torte or gateau and yet expect to digest it as well.
  48. Exude facial felicities and abide.
  49. Maternal nurturers called by an almost infantile diminutive, permit not your nurslings to mature into equestrian herders of kine!
  50. Cut capers at this moment; recompensate subsequently.
  51. "Endure lengthily and thrive." (hint: the benediction of a pop culture icon from the cathode ray tube, him of the acutely angled anterior aural appendages.)
  52. Whither is the locus of the bovine brawn?
  53. As secure as a microbe or virus in a woven runner, even that of an odalisque.
  54. An adamantine carboniferous gem in asperity.
  55. Gelid extramities, ardent bosom.
  56. Chime in with you amenities.
  57. A tuck injuncture lays away an ennead.
  58. Ensnared in arrears of that fabled octonary.
  59. The earth's rotation through even a fraction of a degree equates to mazuma, pelf, lucre.
  60. Seize the taurine creature by its sharp cranial appendages.
  61. In a rill nearer the fluid source tahn not sans eliptically shaped (in cross section) wooden propellant device.
  62. Strict surveilance of the aqueous fluid in a saucepan prevents it from achieveing 100 degrees Celsius.
  63. In the place that there are visible fumes, vapors having thier genesis in the ignition of carbonaceous materials, there is some type of conflagration.
  64. The person presenting or exuding the ultimate cachination possesses therby the optimally superior cachination.
  65. Have your uppper apppendages (the prehensile ones) grasped the apparatus controlling the direction of the revolving instruments of an American conveyance given appelation in honor of the Henry who apporpriated, or perhaps invented, the assembly line--in the time recently past?
  66. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of a small green bryophitic plant.
  67. Elementary remedial sartorial techniques initially applied preclude repetitive similar action to the square of three.



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