NORMAL PERSON : All that glitters is not gold.
GRE STUDENT : All articles that coruscate with resplendence are not truly auriferous.
NORMAL PERSON : Beggars are not choosers.
GRE STUDENT : Sorting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted.
NORMAL PERSON : Dead men tell no tales.
GRE STUDENT : Male cadavers are incapable of rendering any testimony.
NORMAL PERSON : Beginner’s luck.
GRE STUDENT : Neophyte’s serendipity.
NORMAL PERSON : A rolling stone gathers no moss.
GRE STUDENT : A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congeries of small, green, biophytic plants.
NORMAL PERSON : Birds of the same feather flock together.
GRE STUDENT: Members of an avian species of identical plumage tend to congregate.
NORMAL PERSON : Beauty is only skin deep.
GRE STUDENT : Pulchritude possesses solely cutaneous profundity.
NORMAL PERSON : Cleanliness is godliness.
GRE STUDENT : Freedom from incrustations of grime is contiguous to ectitude.
NORMAL PERSON : There’s no use crying over spilt milk.
GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to become lachrymose of precipitately departed lactile fluid.
NORMAL PERSON : Spare the rod and spoil the child.
GRE STUDENT : Eschew the implement of correction and vitiate the scion.
NORMAL PERSON : The pen is mightier than the sword.
GRE STUDENT : The stylus is more potent than the rapier.
NORMAL PERSON : You can’t try to teach an old dog new tricks.
GRE STUDENT : It is fruitless to attempt to indoctrinate a superannuated canine with innovative maneuvers.
NORMAL PERSON : Look before you leap.
GRE STUDENT : Surveillance should precede saltation.
NORMAL PERSON : Twinkle, twinkle, little star.
GRE STUDENT : Scintillate, scintillate, asteroid minim.
NORMAL PERSON : He who laughs last, laughs the best.
GRE STUDENT : The person presenting the ultimate cachinnation possesses thereby the optimal cachinnation.
NORMAL PERSON : All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
GRE STUDENT : Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hedonistic diversion renders Jack a hebetudinous fellow.
NORMAL PERSON : People who live in glass houses should not throw stones.
GRE STUDENT : Individuals who make their abodes in vitreous edifices would be advised to refrain from catapulting petrious projectiles.
NORMAL PERSON : Where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
GRE STUDENT : Where there are visible vapors having their provenance in ignited carbonaceous materials, there is conflagration.