If you want to see the unholy effect of clothing a simple thought with bombastic verbocity, slant your gaze at the following sentences. Hidden away beneath the lush overgrowth of phrases are some plain, simple ideas which you know as common maxims. Can you pierce the verbiage and extricate the proverbs?
1 A mass of concreted earthy material perennially rotating on its axis will not accumulate an accretion of bryrophytic vegetation.
2 A superabundance of talent skilled in the preparation of gastronomic
concoctions will impair the quality of a certain potable solution made by
immersing a gallinaceous bird in ebullient Adam’s ale.
3 Individuals who perforce are constrained to be domiciled in vitreous structures of patent frangibility should on no account employ petrous formations as projectiles.
4 That prudent avis which matutinally deserts the coziness of its abode will ensnare a vermiculate creature.
5 Everything that coruscates with effulgence is not ipso facto aurous.
6 Do not dissipate your competence by hebetudinous prodigality lest you subsequently lament an exiguous inadequacy.
7 An addle-pated beetlehead and his specie divaricate with startling prematurity.
8 It can be no other than a maleficent horizontally propelled current of
gaseous matter whose portentous advent is not the harbinger of a modicum of beneficence.
9 One should hyperesthetically exercise macrography upon that situs which one will eventually tenant if one propels oneself into the troposphere.
10 Aberration is the hallmark of homo sapiens while longanimous placibility and condonation are the indicia of supramundane omniscience.
11 Do not enumerate your juvenile poultry before the process of incubation completely materializes.
ANSWERS
A rolling stone gathers no moss.
Too many cooks spoil the broth.
People who live in glass houses should never throw stones.
The early bird catches the worm.
All that glitters is not gold.
Waste not, want not.
A fool and his money are soon parted.
‘Tis an ill wind that blows no good.
Look before you leap.
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Don’t count your chickens before they hatch.
These are great! #6 took me a while, #9 stumped me.