Doublespeak Proverbs

The following proverb brainteasers represent well known 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.

If you can translate these camouflaged (but familiar) witticisms, you have a talent for making clear writing out of doublespeak. 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

1) Neophyte's serendipity.
2) The stylus is more potent than the claymore.
3) It is fruitless to indoctrinate a super-annuated canine with innovative manoeuvres.
4) The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses, thereby, the optimal cachinnation.
5) Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
6) Exclusive dedication to necessary chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders John a heptudinous fellow.
7) Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity
8) Where there are visible vapours having their province in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration
9) A plethora of individuals with expertise in culinary techniques vitiates the potable concoction produced by steeping comestibles.
10) Male cadavers are incapable of yielding testimony.
11) All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
12) Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.
13) Eschew the implement of corrections and vitiate the scion.
14) 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.
15) Each vaporous mass suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.
16) It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle
17) Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.
18) Deviation from the ordinary or common routine of existence is that which gives zest to man's cycle of existence.
19) 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.
20) Do not traverse a structure erected to afford passage over a waterway until the time of drawing nigh unto it.
21) Superfluous chronological dispatch institutes riddance of value defects.
22) 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.
23) An excess of culinary experts impairs the quality of a thin derivative of meat.
24) A body of persons abiding in a domicile of silica combined with metallic oxides should not carelessly project small geological specimens.