Sorry, all wrong (though I like Feivel’s definitions better than the real ones (: )
However, I’m not so sure these were so fair of me to post, because they’re pretty obscure. Some knowledge of Greek and Greek mythology can help on many of them (along with some trivia knowledge).
To make up for it, another riddle (this time solvable!)
From a website:
INSTRUCTIONS:
Read the descriptions provided below and try to guess which proverb (old saying) they each represent. Don’t worry if you say the “proverb” in a slightly different way than shown in these answers. Over the years, there are many slightly different ways of expressing an old proverb!
If a large solid-hoofed mammal becomes available to you without compensation, refrain from casting your faculty for seeing into the oral cavity of such a creature.
Each vaporous mass suspended in the firmament has an interior decoration of metallic hue.
It is not advantageous to place the sum total of your barnyard collections into the same wicker receptacle.
Feathered bipeds of a kindred mind in their segregated environment associate with a high degree of amiability.
Deviation from the ordinary or common routine of existence is that which gives zest to man’s cycle of existence.
He who locks himself into the arms of Morpheus promptly at eventide, and starts the day before it is officially announced by the rising sun, excels in physical fitness, increases his economic assets and celebrates with remarkable efficiency.
Do not traverse a structure erected to afford passage over a waterway until the time of drawing nigh
A mobile section of petrified matter agglomerates no bryophytes.
Pulchritude pertains solely to the epidermis.