PROVERBS
(Traditional and Biblical)
Section

Necessity is the mother of invention.

• * Originality is often the offspring of obligation. --William Flis
• * Deficiency drives development. --William Flis
• * Scarcity stimulates scheming. --William Flis
• * Exigency encourages engineering. --William Flis

You can't judge a book by its cover.

• * Rating a reading by its wrapping is rather reckless. --William Flis
• Base book by binding? Blockhead. --J. L. Mandelson
• Articulate authors aren't always appealing in appearance. --Kathy Shipley
• Vying to validate a volume's verity via it's visage is a voided voyage. --Rex Stocklin

You are what you eat.

• * Meted meal molecules, modified, make men. --tonedeaf
• Creatures consist completely of consumed comestibles. --Pangea and Anirion
• Entities exist entirely of eaten elements --Pangea
• Partaken produce projects to plenary product. --J. L. Mandelson

All's fair in love and war.

• All is allowed for amorous and armed activities. --Jazziladi
• Everything engaged in enamorous enjoyment, even enemy encounters, earns equity. --Rex Stocklin
• All manner of maneuvres are moral in matters matrimonial and martial. --William Flis

All's well that ends well.

• Finely finished, forever fantastic --Michael Turniansky
• Good going's guaranteed, granted great goal --Michael Turniansky
• Something started surely, ceases satisfactorily. --J. L. Mandelson
• Totality thrives though it terminates terrifically. --Rex Stocklin

Don't burn your bridges.

• Shouldn't singe your scaffold. --Jazziladi
• Spare spans the spark. --Michael Turniansky
• Create crossing conflagrations? Criminy! --Michael Turniansky
• Rue razing roads rendering rivers ridable. --J. L. Mandelson
• Keep the kibosh on kissing off your kwai-kingers as kindling. --Rex Stocklin

Wake up and smell the coffee.

• Arise and ascertain the aroma of an aqueous amphetamine. --Jazzyladi
• Arise and accept the aroma of arabicas --Pangea
• Arise and appreciate the aroma of the arabica. --William Flis
• Fling up and flavor the Folgers. --Stuart Shipley
• Jump-start and jolt on joe. --Rex Stocklin

Look before you leap.

• Behold before bravely but brashly bounding. --Jazzyladi
• Examine the evidence exertively ere extrapolating. --Bill Flis
• Preferrably peek prior to pouncing. --Pangea and Anirion

Six of one, a half-dozen of the other.

• Three twins of these, two triplets of those, 'tis a tossup, truly.. --Bill Flis
• A decimated drei-score of dos doppleganger, doubles in ditto denomination. --Rex Stocklin

Killing two birds with one stone.

• Pummel partridge pair per pebble. --Stephanie A Tipton
• Media Moment!: maiming missle mutilates multiple magpies! --Mary Sorensen
• Group of geese gone by gram of granite. --Kathy Shipley
• Dispatching duo doves with an individual diamond. --Rex Stocklin

Clothes make the man.

• Fashion fans the flames a fellows future. --Stephanie A Tipton
• Tony togs tie the terran together. --Rex Stocklin
• Highfalutin haberdashery hands him honor. --William Flis
• Raiment regulates the reception of respect or ridicule. --William Flis

The bigger they are, the harder they fall.

• Lofty lugs land largely. --Stephanie A Tipton
• A group's aggregate gross groks a greater grade than greets a congressed grievous gravitational grounding. --Rex Stocklin
• Titans typically take to terser toppling than tots. --Rex Stocklin
• The power of the plummet is proportional to the poundage of the person punched. --William Flis

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names shall never hurt me.

• Lobbed laurel limbs likely to lacerate, but libelous labels leave lack of lesions --Pangea and Anirion
• Rocks may rupture my ribs but rude remarks only razz me. --Stuart Shipley
• Plunging projectiles produce pain, pompous profanities perpetuate pretenses --Mary and Kevin Sorensen
• Limbs and lithoids lay waste to my life-laden latticelings, alas alias lingo leaves little loathesome lesion. --Rex Stocklin

People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

• Rock retaliation refused to residents of refractive rooms --Pangea and Anirion
• Lucid lean-to livers, lest not lob lugnuts. --Rex Stocklin
• Inhabitants of inflammable interiors who injudiciously ignite incendiary items invite incidental igneous injuries. --Willian Flis
• Occupants of ocularly overt offices oughtn't oppress others. --Kevin Sorensen
• Independents inhabiting inferior inns might inhale insulation. --Kathy Shipley
• Tenants to transparent trailers terrify their trailers tossing toasters. --Margaret and Carolyn

All that glitters is not gold.

• Shiny surface shields sham substance. --Pangea and Anirion
• Polished pebble possibly pyrite. --J. L. Mandelson
• Apparently auric articles aren't always authentic. --William Flis
• Don't 'spose the spectrum of spectrally speckled specimens is specifically spelunked specialty. --Rex Stocklin

Strike while the iron is hot.

• Hit heated hammer --Pangea
• Steel's scalding? Surely strike! --J. L. Mandelson
• Operate onslaught over 'ot 'ore. --Rex Stocklin
• Facilely fashion the ferrous form forthwith, 'fore it firms. --William Flis
• Macerate metal, maintaining moltenness. --Martin H. Booda

Appearances can be deceiving.

• Seeming shininess shouldn't shield substance --Pangea
• Counterfiet countenance could conceal crummy core. --J. L. Mandelson
• A mild-mannered mien may mask murderous motives. --William Flis
• Facades may foster fooling. --Rex Stocklin

Stop and smell the roses.

• Navigate to a node and nod your nose to the nasturtiums --Stanley Anderson
• Pause in your perambulations to partake of the petunia's perfume. --William Flis
• Brake your buggy and bend your beak to the begonias. --William Flis
• Interrupt your itinerary to inhale the inflorescence. --William Flis
• Knock off the navigation 'n' nose the narcissus. --William Flis
• Halt! Huff these here hibiscus. --William Flis
• Falter afore finishing and flavor the flowers. --Kathy Shipley
• Whoa and whiff the woo-weeds. --Rex Stocklin

Too many cooks spoil the broth.

• Gaggles of Gourmets Goof the Gumbo. --Megan Hoagland
• Various Victual-makers Void the Vichysois. --Megan Hoagland
• A surplus of sous chefs serves soured soup. --Rex Stocklin
• A plethora of pot preppers puts a pox upon the porridge. --Rex Stocklin
• Manifold meal maestros make mincemeat amidst amok mulligatawny. --Rex Stocklin
• A profusion of preparers perverts the Philadelphia pepperpot. --William Flis
• A surfeit of stirrers scorches the stew. --William Flis
• A conglomeration of cooks corrupts the consommé. --William Flis
• A crowded kitchen can cause contamination of the chili. --William Flis

Don't cry over spilt milk.

• Caution! Crying caused by collapsed container of cookie-coater is crazy. --Michael Turniansky
• Don't despair due to dropped dairy. --Michael Turniansky
• Forget fretting for fumbled foamy. --Michael Turniansky
• Gads! Glass gone? Get glad. --Michael Turniansky
• Belay bereaving of bovine beverage brought beyond bounds of broken beaker. --Anirion and Pangea
• Tears over tiny troubles tattles too taken with tenderness. --Kathy Shipley
• Lighten!: lose lamenting lip-listed lactose liquid. --Rex Stocklin

One bird in your hand is better than ten on the roof (Danish version from Rasmus Pagh).

• A canary clenched closely corresponds certainly to a covey cleverly covering ceiling. --J. L. Mandelson
• Sole sparrow seized surely seems superior to seeing seven sitting super-seizable. --Rasmus Pagh

Brains before beauty

• Winsomness waits on wits. --Willian Flis
• Perpicacity is properly precursory to pulchritude. --Willian Flis
• Powers of perception precede a pretty puss. --Willian Flis
• Longheadedness leads to loveliness. --Willian Flis
• Guile goes ahead of glamour. --Willian Flis
• Astuteness antecedes attractiveness. --Willian Flis
• Cleverness comes before comeliness. --Willian Flis
• Cerebral capacity comes before cute curves. --Willian Flis
• Eggheads edge out eyefuls. --Willian Flis
• Encyclopedias ere enchantresses. --Willian Flis
• Farsightedness foreruns fairness of face. --Willian Flis
• A finely formed figure follows fully formed faculties. --Willian Flis
• Shapeliness succeeds smarts. --Willian Flis
• Brilliance before a bombshell's build. --Willian Flis
• Scholarship supercedes superficial sexiness. --Rex Stocklin

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

• A palmed parrot's price is premium posed per peeping pair perched in pampas. --Rex Stocklin
• Bagged birdie bakes better. --Kevin Sorensen
• Sole sparrow seized surely seems superior to several shrubbery-sheltered sparrows. --Rasmus Pagh

Murder will out.

• Dastardly death dealing defies ducking. --Rex Stocklin
• Homicide is hard to hide. --William Flis

Marry in haste; repent at leisure.

• A couple's conjugal coup cancels confession until calmness comes. --Rex Stocklin
• Whirlwindishly wed, weep when weeks've went. --Michael Turniansky
• Do duo deed dashingly, decry done deal in drawn-out days. --Michael Turniansky
• Quite quickly quench queen quest, quietly quiver quintessentially. --Michael Turniansky
• Have his/her hand in a hurry; henceforth, hourly, hate having him/her as husband/housewife. (the PC version) --William Flis
• Couple at a clip, cry at your continued convenience. --William Flis
• Ring ritualistically in a rush, regret rather regularly in repose. --William Flis
• Pair promptly, pine persistently in penitence per a protracted period. --William Flis
• Avow an agreed alliance at the altar with alacrity, and apologize abjectly afterwards, according to all available absence of activity. --William Flis
• E. Fudd version: Wed wapidwy, wegwet at weisure. --William Flis

Loose lips sink ships.

• Flagrant faultfinding facilitates fast firings. --Kathy Shipley
• Moving mouths maroon marines. --J. L. Mandelson
• Chat charily, chum: checkless chin-music chances chaos for Churchill's champagne-christened Channel-churning chasers. --William Flis
• Careless cackling catapults canoes. --Stuart Shipley
• Crude conversation capsizes catamarans. --Tony Shipley
• Blabbing bequeathes brotherly boats to the briny bottom beside the benthic beasts. --William Flis
• Unpursed puckerers puncture pontoons. --Stanley Anderson
• Tattling tooth tents torpedo travelers. --Stanley Anderson
• Babbling bussers bomb battleships. --Angelee Anderson
• Kissers akimbo kayo kayaks. --Rex Stocklin

Beggars can't be choosers.

• Latecomers lunch on leftovers. --Kathy Shipley
• Avoid athenians administering asthetic appointments. --Rex Stocklin

Kicking a dead horse

• Entertaining energetic Earthling-end eruptions at el expired equestrian. --Rex Stocklin

Spread the table and contention will cease.

• Make munchies, many more mouths make meal, miss misconstruings. --Michael Turniansky
• Choose chow, chill. --Michael Turniansky
• Fine food found, former fiends form fast friend. --Michael Turniansky
• Proffer the pabulum and the pugilism will pause, the pugnacity will pass, and the polemics will be punctuated with pacifism. --William Flis
• Break the bread and the brawling will abbreviate. (or bloodshed will abate). --William Flis
• Set the sustenance and skirmishes will settle. --Rex Stocklin
• Vivify the vittles and vying will vanish. --Rex Stocklin
• Dole out the dinner and donnybrooks will desist. --Rex Stocklin
• Lay out the lunchable libations and the lunging will lapse. --Rex Stocklin
• Establish the eats and the embroilments will ebb. --Rex Stocklin
• Establish the eats and the embroilments will ebb. --Rex Stocklin
• Annouce the appetizers and arguments abate. --Stanley Anderson
• Burden the board and battles will abort. --Angelee Anderson
• Cover the cloth with coldcuts and cursing will be cured. --Stanley and Angelee Anderson
• Furnish the feast and fighting wil finish. --Angelee Anderson

A case of the pot calling the kettle black.

• A situation of the saucepan, somehow slipping up on seeing self as same, stigmatizing the skillet as swarthy. --William Flis
• Isn't it established the eclectic ewers're exchaging an ebonic epithet. --Rex Stocklin

Don't put all your eggs in one basket.

• For safety's sake, store your seed in several separate sacks. --William Flis
• Ebb emptying every emerald easter entity existing; entwine exactly enough. --Kathy Shipley
• Obviate open organizer's only occupation of owned ova. --Rex Stocklin

He who hesitates is lost.

• Wait a little and wander a lot. --Kathy Shipley
• Delay is deadly. --Stanley Anderson
• A person pausing perishes. --Stanley Anderson
• the man who mulls it over merets misplacement. --Rex Stocklin

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

• Rollicking Rocks Reject Reeking Rot. --Stuart Shipley
• A gyrating gem generates no germination. --William Flis
• A convoluting carbuncle can't collect cotyledons. --William Flis
• A bouncing boulder bags no bryophytes. --William Flis
• Botanicals bond badly to a busy boulder. --William Flis
• Bracken barely bloom on a ballistic boulder. --William Flis
• A precessing pebble piles on no prefoliation. --William Flis
• A rotating rock rarely retains ramifying residues. --William Flis
• A xenolith extending x-ways to its axis exacts no xylem-related oxygen exhumers. --Stanley Anderson
• A listing lithoid locates lacking lichen. --Rex Stocklin

Last but not least

• In usage, ultimate; in utility, uncommon. --William Flis
• Trailing, in truth, trans-trivial --Rex Stocklin
• Subsequent sans simple superficiality --Rex Stocklin
• Ambling after, although anti-atomic --Stanley Anderson
• Acting as an antecedent, and yet adequate --Stanley Anderson
• Final, but far from frivolous --Stanley Anderson

A saint abroad and a devil at home

• Brother beyond boundaries but beast benched. --Kathy Shipley
• Sanctified sea-bound sight-seer sticks to sinning Stateside. --Rex Stocklin
• Deity-debted diplomat doubles as demon domestically. --Rex Stocklin
• A good guy globally, but a grief-giver when grounded. --Stanley Anderson

Out of the frying pan, into the fire.

• Went from Wok to Waste. --Kathy Shipley
• something sans sauteer, assimilated as singed subject. --Rex Stocklin
• came from the cooker, caught in combustion. --Rex Stocklin
• ejected from escoffier's eats-emitting engine, entered essential energy-emitting element. --Rex Stocklin

A stitch in time saves nine.

• Mending minor mishaps makes major mopery moot. --Kevin Sorensen
• Sewing swiftly sloppily sourses resewing. --Kathy Shipley
• Said situation's sewn seam segment's settled certainty salvages six's spun sibling. --Rex Stocklin
• Each engineered ewe-eruption's early efficience earns ein ennead's excellent escape. --Rex Stocklin
• Single sutures sewn summarily supersede several subsequently. --Barb Blazyk

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

• Avoid accounting assests against accounts accruing. --Mary Sorensen
• Leave leeway lest less loot lands. --Kevin Sorensen
• Never number nonexistent niceties until noticably near. --Kathy Shipley
• Avoid aggregated amounts ala all allocated agricultural avians as anxious anticipating any arrival affords. --Rex Stocklin
• Frown on fingering a factored, finalized fix of your fryers forward of featured fowl's future fetal fete. --Rex Stocklin
• Eschew enumerating egg-evolved entities ere emergence. --Barb Blazyk

The early bird catches the worm.

• Dawn doves devour delicious delicacies. --Lynn Maudlin
• An advanced arising and anticipatory aves acquires the annelid. --Rex Stocklin

No man is an island.

• Few find themselves to be friend or family of the Falklands. --Stanley Anderson
• No person performs as a pinched off peninsula. --Stanley Anderson
• No human hails himself as Hawaii. --Stanley Anderson
• Anyone acting as a atoll is always atypical. --Stanley Anderson
• A walkway always awaits a woman without wading in water. --Stanley Anderson
• An absence of anyone ain't an archipelagoic annex. --Rex Stocklin

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