Now to look up some words and try again on the ones I didn't get the first go-round...
Freedom from encrustations of grime is contagious to rectitude -
Cleanliness is next to godliness
Opting on the part of mendicants must be interdicted -
hmmm...still not getting this one. Closest direct "translation" would come out like: Siding with beggars must be stopped. LOL
Eleemosynary deeds have their incipience intramurally -
Charity begins at home
Abstention from elevatory undertakings precludes a potential escalation of a lucrative nature -
Closest I can think for this would be along the lines of: opportunity only knocks once...or something [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Eschew obfuscated phraseology: employ perspicuous verbiage -
nope, still can't get this one, LOL
Veracity ascertains emancipation -
The truth shall set you free
A pulchritudinous entity pleasures eternally -
nope [img]tongue.gif[/img]
Mandate establishing orb and bicuspid exchange -
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth ( ? )
New York is New York and California is California, but an encounter between them cannot ever exist -
East is East and West is West, but the twain shall never meet ( ? )
Fair damsel’s drudgery both drag on forever -
A woman's work is never done ( ? )
In scant cognition there’s a precarious condition -
A little knowledge is dangerous
Propinquity avails itself only in the coverlets of equine quadru-bases -
all I can make of this is kinship and horseblankets...?? LOL