My son has to change these words into well known proverbs and I am having a hard time helping him. If anybody knows of a good site he can use I would really appreciate it. He has been looking up words and trying to put them into everyday language but is falling short. Out of 38 he has 11 left to do. Here are a few of them.

Propitiously initiated is semi-implemented.
The ultimate objective vindicates deployment of intermediate agencies.
It is sheer futility to attempt to manufacture a sericeous reticule from an aural appendage of a distaff member of the porcine species.

Please anybody with knowledge of these type of problems LMK how to help him. TIA jodialcala@hotmail.com

The last one is "you can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear"

check out this site - maybe it will help:

Proverbs

the second one could be "the end justifies the means"

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He has half the deed done who has made a beginning. (I'm not sure of a more contemporary translation).
The ends justify the means.
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear.

I'm sure the group here can help you with these, or try quotesandsayings.com. That's what I used on the first one.

Renee

Thanks Ladies....... if anybody wants to help I have more.......

post some more - maybe we can help...

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In the realm populated by those destitute of sight, the monocular denizen gains hegemony.

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

Not infrequently a contretemps may eventuate on the journey from the chalice to the periphery of one's oral orifice.

The first one looks like "the one-eyed man is king in the land of the blind."
The second could be "waste not, want not."
I don't have any idea about the 3rd one.

Many's the slip twixt the cup and the lips is the third one.

I think the first is "Well begun is half done." I think the other ladies got the rest for you.

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What is the purpose of the assignment? You ladies rock being able to figure them out!

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There's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip Not infrequently a contretemps may eventuate on the journey from the chalice to the periphery of one's oral orifice.

Things go wrong between the time we decide to do something and the time we do it.

Did Obama give him this assignment