Post by Odyssey on Jul 2, 2008 23:25:12 GMT -5
Don't cheat....give it an honest try, If I could figure them out.
Read the new versions below and try to guess the original proverbs. No cheating. The answers follow.
1. Tenants of vitreous abodes ought to hurl no lithoidal fragments.
2 Insufficient instruction to an aged canine will not result in its ability to undertake fresh stratagems.
3 Labor to the exclusion of frolic renders a lackluster soul.
4 The individual of the class Aves, arriving before an appointed time, seizes the invertebrate animal of the class Oligochaeta.
5 A painting has greater value then a vocabulary of ten times 100.
6 Double gray matter encasements are superior to a single such item.
7 What counts is not triumph or defeat but the process of the competition.
8 At no time, under any circumstances, say the words “at no time under any circumstances.”
9 Tolerate it with a particle of Na Cl.
10 It is not proper for mendicants to be indicative of preference.
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1.People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones
2 You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
3 All work, no play makes one a dull person.
4 The early bird catches the worm.
5 A picture is worth a thousand words.
6 Two heads are better then one.
7 Its not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.
8 Never say never.
9 Take it with a grain of salt.
10 Beggars can’t be choosers.
