Tough toughens; rough roughens.
Backbreaking — it’s goodmaking.
Hard times make good memories.
Hard is just a perspective — except when it’s a crushing reality.
Harder is a function of nearer.
Irreversible decline — yet moments still fine.
Don’t play your hard-card; all the other players at the table have one too.
Hard has always starred; easy has always been the shocked audience.
Work at playing hard to get; play at being work to forget.
Laborious — it’s no more virtuous than hilarious.
Solve your own problems; it’s less taxing, than to keep asking.
Cumulative yuck, exponential muck, a string of bad luck — form a ruck!
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams 