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These well-known quotations or phrases have been reworded below but the original meaning has been kept. Can you identify the original?

Example: "lack of awareness brings elation" = ignorance is bliss

1.) Turn herbage into fodder during periods of clear weather.

2.) Small, inanimate objects gratify small intellects.

3.) Arm-joint lubrication lends a-one smoothness and gloss of surface.

4.) One absolutely does not feel the loss of the colorless, tasteless liquid up to the time that the spring loses its contents.

1 Make Hay While The Sun Shines
2 Simple things please simple minds

4, You never miss the water until the well runs dry ?

3, Elbow grease will make an oak table shine.

Not at all sure of 3!

Rusty, your 3 works but it's not a proverb I've ever seen or heard! I knew 'elbow grease' was involved, but there was nothing in Brewer's or the ODQ. I was glad you provided the water/well one, that was buried in the deepest recesses of my brain, and I couldn't retrieve it!

Hello, Malone!
I have vaguely heard of 3, but not sure if it is "all correct"!
Bit early in the day for my brain to be in top gear!

The only thing is with the one about the elbow grease. I looked that term up in regards to idioms and "elbow grease" is an idiom for hard labor. So I am not sure how that would tie into a table. Maybe Im wrong that one.

Hello, Icauser, I am sceptical, too, about 3!
I think the "elbow grease" bit is correct, but the rest of the saying is in the deepest recesses of my memory and is reluctant to come forth.
I thought an "oak table" was part of it, though.
Maybe someone else can help?

The only real idiom I could find was "The squeaky wheel gets the grease"