proverbs

A proverb is a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people.
Scientists have to challenge well-known facts of one type or another every day. They must do this to ensure that they find new ways of doing things and do not accept any "fact" or truth at face value simply because it is a long-standing belief.

The following proverb brainteasers also represent well known facts...old sayings that have been relied on for hundreds of years. You've probably used these proverbs, or at least have heard them used at some point in your life. But for this brainteaser quiz, they have been re-written using BIG WORDS that mean essentially the same thing, but sound a whole lot different. We think you'll agree that they sound much better and make a lot more sense in their original forms, which relied on plain and simple English!

INSTRUCTIONS:
Read the descriptions provided below and try to guess which proverb (old saying) they each represent. You could write all the answers in the blocks provided, and then check the answers after you have done them all. Or you can just think of an answer in your head, and check it as you go along. Don't worry if you say the "proverb" in a slightly different way than shown in these answers. Over the years, there are many slightly different ways of expressing an old proverb!

If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.

Each vaporous mass suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.

It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle.

Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.

Deviation from the ordinary or common routine of existence is that which gives zest to man's cycle of existence.

He who locks himself into the arms of Morpheus promptly at eventide, and starts the day before it is officially announced by the rising sun, excels in physical fitness, increases his economic assets and celebrates with remarkable efficiency.

Do not traverse a structure erected to afford passage over a waterway until the time of drawing nigh unto it.

Superfluous chronological dispatch institutes riddance of valued effects.

There?s no value to be derived from demanding attention by loud screeches over fallen white liquid derived from the lactic glands of a female bovine.

An excess of culinary experts impairs the quality of a thin derivative of meat.

A body of persons abiding in a domicile of silica combined with metallic oxides should not carelessly project small geological specimens.

A canine which gives vent to his sentiments by a series of vocal efforts, rarely finds use of his bicuspids.

A vessel under optical supervision never reaches the temperature of 212 degrees.

A consolidated mass which forms the earth's crust, and which progresses by turning over upon its surface without slipping, does not successfully gather together a cryptogamous plant.