Cool thing from LAME class

We did this thing with language today, I actually enjoyed it. Jill gave us common sayings/phrases in "big" language. I'll write them out in the big form, and you decipher what they are.  At the end, I'll have the answers "hidden"

1. Childlike interest for information dispatched a well known carnivorous animal.
2. Assiduously refrain from affecting a census of the expected progeny of the barnyard fowl preceding their emergence from the ensheathing calcareous encrustation.
3. Individuals who inhabit domiciles constructed of a transparent, fragile, silicious compound must avoid projecting missiles.
4. Immediately upon the absence of the domesticated carnivorous feline, the common house rodent proceeds to engage in sportive capers.
5. It is in the realm of possibility to entice an equine member of the animal kingdom to a source of oxidized hydrogen; however, it is not possible to force it to imbibe.
6. Sparkle and scintillation are not always identification for an auric substance.
7. Persons deficient in judgement hasten to undertake that for which winged celestials hesitate to assume responsibility.
8. It is the final bit of dried grass that affixed to the burden previously acquired induces a rupture of the dorsal portion of the ship-of-the-desert.
9. The best loved flower in the world, if provided with a cognomen different than that established by the Vienna code, would yet emit by means of its essential oils and esters an aromatic effervescence similiar in all respects to that obtaining if the correct terminology were used.

Now, here are the answers. DON'T CHEAT!!

1. Curiosity killed the cat.
2. Don't count your chickens before they hatch.
3. People who live in glass houses shouldn't cast stones.
4. When the cat's away, the mice will play.
5. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
6. All that glitters is not gold.  (or if you want to go the J.R.R. Tolkien route: all that is gold does not glitter.)
7. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
8. "That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."