1. All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.

Answer: All that glitters is not gold.

2. Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.

Answer: Beggars cannot be choosers.

3. Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.

Answer: Dead men tell no tales.

4. Neophyte's serendipity.

Answer: Beginner's luck

5. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plant.

Answer: A rolling stone gathers no moss.

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6. Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.

Answer: Birds of a feather flock together.

7. Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.

Answer: Beauty is only skin-deep.

8. Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to rectitude.

Answer: Cleanliness is next to godliness.

9. It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

Answer: Don't cry over spilt milk.

10. Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.

Answer: Spare the rod and spoil the child.

11. The stylus is more potent than the rapier.

Answer: The pen is mightier than the sword.

12. It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.

Answer: You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

13. Surveillance should precede saltation.

Answer: Look before you leap.

14. Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.

Answer: Twinkle twinkle little star.

15. The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.

Answer: One who laughs the last, laughs the best.

16. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.

Answer: All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

17. Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.

Answer: Those who live glass houses should cast no stones.

18. Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.

Answer: Where there is smoke, there is fire.