These thought proverbs, anti-proverbs and axiomatic truths were created by Randy Hasper.
A good proverb is like a good foot-bridge troll, short-statured, sturdy and armed with a vicious bite.
To help, shut up.
Don’t yelp, help.
The truth that hurts helps.
It helps to know when helping harms.
To help, hand over the tools.
Failure aids future raids.
Helping is quite magical, taking over tragical.
Help is a wizard’s wand, but wizards don’t come from wands.
Helping showers; advising empowers.
There is the quip and the whip — or the responsibility-based relationship.
Uneaten bananas rot; unempathetic hearts clot.
Blessed are the helpful for they will themselves be helped.
The helpless may yet cure themselves by helping.
At a vision’s core exists a necessary chore.
There is no lower class to uplift, only all of us to love.
Beware bad dogs and hungry do-gooders.
Bite the feed work hands you.
God helps those who help anyone other than themselves.
We begin and end with help.
Don’t cry wolf; advance on the rapacious with a shout.
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams