Are you able to translate these well known cliches?

See if you can figure these out, without looking at the answers.

1. Scintillate, Scintillate, asteroid exiguous.

2. Members of an avian species of identical plumage congregate.

3. Surveillance should precede salutations.

4. Pulchritude poses possesses solely coetaneous profundity.

5. It is fruitless to become lachrymose over precipitately departed lacteal fluid.

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

7. The stylus is more potent then the claymore.

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

9. Eschew the implement of correction of vitiate the scion.

10. The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled saucepan does not does reach 212 degrees.

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

12. Where there are visible vapors in ignited carbonaceous material, there is conflagration.

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

14. A plethora of individual with expertise in culinary techniques vitiate the potable concoctions produced by steeping certain comestibles.

15. Eleemosynary deeds have their insipience intramurally.

16. Male cadavers are incapable of yielding any testimony.

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

18. Neophyte's serendipity.

19. Exclusive dedication to necessitous chores without interludes of hadonisita diversion renders Jack a habatudinous fellow.

20. A revolving lithic conglomerate accumulates no congaries of a small, green bryophitic plant.

21. A person presenting the ultimate cachination possess thereby the optimal cachination.

22. Abstention from any aleatory undertakings precludes a potent potential escalation of lucrative nature.

23. Missiles of ligneous or petrous consistency have the potential of fracturing my osseous structures but appellations will eternally name innocuous.

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Answers:

1. Twinkle, twinkle, little star.

2. Birds of a feather, flock together.

3. Think before you speak.

4. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

5. Don't cry over spilled milk.

6. Cleanliness is next to godliness.

7. The pen is mightier than the sword.

8. You can't teach an old dog new tricks.

9. Spare the rod and spoil the child.

10. A watched pot never boils.

11. All that glitters is not gold.

12. Where there's smoke, there's fire.

13. Beggars can't be choosers.

14. Too many cooks spoil the broth.

15. Good deeds begin at home.

16. Dead men tell no tales.

17. People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.

18. Beginner's luck.

19. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

20. A rolling stone gathers no moss.

21. He who laughs last, laughs best.

22. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.

23. Sticks and stones might break my bones, but words will never hurt me.