October Deals and Answers

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Here are the answers to the High-brow Proverb quiz in the 10-1-23 newsletter. Did you get your free copy of The Dead Detective Agency? You will love Seamus!

1. Prudence and sagacity are the worthier condiments of intrepid courage.

Discretion is the better part of valor.    

2. It is fruitless to become lachrymose because of wasted lacteal fluid.

Don't cry over spilled milk.

3. Freedom from guile or fraud constitutes the most excellent principal of procedure.

Honesty is the best policy

4. A rotating lithoid fragment never accrues lichen.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

5. It is not proper for mendicants to be indicators of preference.

Beggars can't be choosers

6. A strong feeling of affection can cause the universe to rotate on its axis.

Love makes the world go 'round.

7. Folks deficient in ordinary judgment scurry into areas in which celestial beings dread to set foot.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

8. Every article which coruscates is not fashioned of aureate metal.

All that glitters isn't gold.

9. Refrain from detonating a missile until opaque, colorless parts of the visual organs are in evidence.

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes.

10. Pulchritude does not extend below the surface of the dermis.

Beauty is only skin deep.

11. A beholden vessel never exceeds 212 degrees Fahrenheit.

A watched pot never boils.

12. A feathered creature clasped in the manual member is of equal value to a brace in nearby greenery.

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

13. The question is whether there is any credibility to the conclusion that those with pale colored downy on the uppermost part of mammals do in reality realize more frivolity than those in opposite conditions.

Is it true blonds have more fun?

14. A mobile section of petrified matter agglomerates no bryophytes.

A rolling stone gathers no moss.

15. Desist from enumerating your fowl prior to their emergence from the shell.

Don't count your chickens before they hatch.

16. A plethora of culinary specialists has a deleterious effect upon the quality of purees, consommés, and other soluble pabula.

Too many cooks spoil the pudding (or broth).

17. A chronic disposition to inquiry deprived the domestic feline carnivorous quadruped of its vital quality.

Curiosity killed the cat.

18. It is in the realm of possibility to entice an equine member of the animal kingdom to a source of oxidized hydrogen; however, it is not possible to force him to imbibe.

You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

19. If John persists without respite in a constant, prolonged exertion of physical or intellectual effort, he will develop into a youth slow and blunted in perception and sensibility.

All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

20. Immediately upon the absence of the domesticated carnivorous feline, the common house rodents proceed to engage in sportive capers.

When the cat's away, the mice will play.

21. A round, bulging vessel made of staves bound with hoops that is destitute of contents is productive of the most deafening din.

An empty barrel makes the most noise.

22. Products of ingenuity are often the offspring of exigency.

Necessity is the mother of invention.

23. Every effort and endeavor is lawful and legitimate in endocrine affection and hostile encounter.

All's fair in love and war.

24. A copper disc secreted away is a merited income of the same.

A penny saved is a penny earned.

25. It is suggested that one survey the situation before making an impetuous flight into space.

Look before you leap.

26. A reparative running bast executed expediently is economic protection against additional entries.

A stitch in time saves nine.

27. The printed means of economic exchange is the sum underlying cause of malevolence.

Money is the root of all evil.

28. An avis setting out on a pre-dawn maneuver manages to capture an earth-burrowing crawler.

The early bird gets the worm.

29. The theological entity of evil provides opportunity for inoperative upper manipulators.

The devil makes work for idle hands.

30. Species of homo sapiens who reside in dwellings composed of transparent crystalline rock should not engage in hurling lithoid fragments.

People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

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