Slack makes lack.
Traffic in lazy; make everyone crazy.
Heal apathy, using passion.
Doing doesn’t require feeling.
The lazy sigh and don’t know why.
Every sloth ruins some cloth.
Negligental; detrimental.
Bliss — it’s passionless.
Love has no lazy.
lazy
Posted: February 15, 2018 in lazy, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs about laziness, modern proverbs about sloth, proverbs, proverbs about being lazy, proverbs about laziness, proverbs about negligence, randy hasper
birth
Posted: February 14, 2018 in birth, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs about birth, proverbs, proverbs about beginnings, proverbs about birth, quotes about birth, randy hasper
Life is earth and birth, then girth and mirth.
At every birth the universe begins again.
Nascency begins the narrative life plays out.
Beauty and birth, the hope of the earth.
Embrace poverty, disease and exhaustion — have babies.
“Bye!” follows hard on every “Hi!”
At birth, celebrate; in life, formulate; at death, abdicate.
Life is gushy, quite mushy, both slushy and flushy.
There’s a time to why, and a time to fly.
It’s breath, breadth, shibboleth, then death.
cynicism
Posted: February 6, 2018 in cynicism, UncategorizedTags: cynical proverbs, modern provebs, modern proverbs about cynicism, provbs, proverbs about cynicism, proverbs about cynics, proverbs about hope, randy hasper
Expect a bad outcome; you’ll get one.
Believe in people; put no trust in their consistency.
Most cynicism can be traced back to one source — a harmful person.
Protect against disappointment; cultivate a cheerful pessimism.
To explore the exquisite permutations of cynicism — age.
All’s well; the terminally chipper will cancel out the obstinately miserable.
There is no hope that people will be wise, only that they might be rescued.
Our species will not be restrained, but it may be forgiven.
The convivial cynic is full of faith — in humor.
Cultivate hope; laugh your sass off.
Be leery, but stay cheery.
abusers
Posted: February 2, 2018 in abusers, UncategorizedTags: me too, modern proverbs, modern proverbs about abusers, proverbs, Proverbs about abuse, proverbs about abusers, proverbs about the me too movement
Be honorable; stay dressed.
Aspire to greatness; keep your zipper up.
Sleep with your spouse; stay awake with everyone else.
To zip on high, keep it zipped on low.
The greatest mystery of the race, it’s lie on lie with a straight face.
To harm a child is to raid a community.
One of the great shocks of life — the most trusted, the most untrustworthy.
The doe eyes of the abused peak through the ragged holes of the abuser.
To abuse is one kind of horror; to look the other way is another.
Believe the lowly; doubt the highly.
Collateral abuse lies in turning away from the harmed.
bias
Posted: January 27, 2018 in bias, UncategorizedTags: avoiding bias, modern proverbs, proverbs, proverbs about bias, quotes about bias, randy hasper, what is bias?
Few can quell their tilted hell.
Rants are fueled by slants.
Cut to the truth, not on the bias.
Bias, bias the bane of the pious.
Bias peeks from behind the ragged edge of every approval.
Bias gorges enthusiasm; it pukes hatred.
Judgment bent is wisdom rent.
Skewed; the other side gets screwed.
Convinced to the hilt is ever on tilt.
Our loveliest conversations are with those who share our biases; these are also our most dangerous conversations.
bragging
Posted: January 27, 2018 in bragging, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs about bragging, proverbs, proverbs about braggarts, proverbs about bragging, proverbs about pride, quotes about bragging, randy hasper
The crowd loves jack; the pack loves verbosmack.
As flies feast on decay so weakness suppers on braggadocio.
Puffed fluffs; fluffed puffs.
Windbags sail all fine ships toward themselves.
Verbal lather; rabble slather.
Nations rise on cannonade; they fall on gasconade.
Master the art of bragging; become President.
Everyone brags; some use words.
Modesty brags, using silence.
The swagger, the bragger, the lift, the dagger.
All brags will one day sag, all bull someday go null.
preservation
Posted: January 26, 2018 in preservation, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs about preservation, modern quotes about preservation, proverbs, proverbs about perservation, proverbs about preserving life, randy hasper
Salt it; vault it.
Preserve the best; toss the rest.
Experience is a vault, memory a salt.
The image we retain, bright gold in quartz’s grain.
Endings simplify; death completely declutters.
The mind mothballs our tattered memory halls.
Tie down all good; secure all virtue; launch into the storm.
Heal a body, it sickens again; mature a soul, it lasts forever.
Feed the ever-voyaging spirit; leave the body at the shore.
Assiduously harbor your successes; gently release your failures.
Let go the weak off-tempo beep; dance to psyche’s persistent suite.
doors
Posted: January 17, 2018 in doors, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, Modern proverbs about doors, proverbs, Proverbs about doors, Proverbs about new beginnings, Proverbs about opportunities, proverbs about the future, randy hasper
If there are no doors go through the walls.
Every wall is a door.
Opportunity knocks on closed doors; importunity kicks them down.
Time flutters at every window; space floats in every doorway.
Every exit is an entrance.
Live well; paint doors; hang art.
At every door we abandon something.
The future is the door we haven’t yet opened.
Behind the door, all families war.
The wall, the floor, the door, the more.
lawsuits
Posted: January 17, 2018 in lawsuit, UncategorizedTags: lawsuit, modern proverbs, Modern proverbs about lawsuits, proverbs, Proverbs about lawsuits, Proverbs about the law, randy hasper
The second human required the first lawsuit.
Succeed, then hire lawyers.
The best bargains are found just outside the worst courts.
Abort, abort — the judge doth snort.
All creativity ends in a lawsuit.
The law created the suit.
The suit gets the suite.
If you go to court, you’ll buy a suit.
The one with the most lawsuits wins.
Drag it out; chalk it up.
An incident is a grocery store; a lawsuit is a shopping cart.
The loot is moot in a just lawsuit.
cancer
Posted: December 27, 2017 in cancer, UncategorizedTags: cancer, cancer proverbs, cancer quotes about cancer, Modern proverbs about cancer, proverbs about cancer, randy hasper, surviving cancer
When we encounter insidious maladies, we fashion tortuous cures.
Cancer is a deranged emperor giving crazed orders to a rampageous army.
Cancer crosses all motes, storms all castles.
Malignant; get indignant.
Slash the mass; chem the thing.
Fiend friend, delays the end.
Chem it; damn it; hack it; slam it.
Math it; cure it.
Cancer is an excess; hope is a norm.
The clonal bout, the charnel house, the backdoor out.
Fearful to have; terrible to witness; excruciating to treat; joyful to cure.
In the end, the only magic bullet is love.
dress
Posted: December 12, 2017 in dress, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, proverbs, proverbs about clothes, proverbs about how to dress, Psychology of the dress, randy hasper, The power of clothes, The psychology of clothing, The psychology of the dress
The suit gets the loot.
Out is in and inside out.
Clothes make the mood.
Dress to impress — one, not the rest.
Size does not epitomize the prize.
Classy is dressing your toes; brassy is looking straight down your nose.
Dress up; stay home; compliment yourself.
A headline can start a war; a dress can derail a civilization.
Every dress fits an occasion; every man is not one.
Dresses have power for more than an hour.
Every girl in every dress compares herself to all the rest.
soliloquy
Posted: December 10, 2017 in UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, Modern proverbs about soliloquies, proverbs, proverbs about poetry, proverbs about soliloquies, randy hasper, Soliloquy
Let loose, the conspicuous abstruse!
To right a wrong, go long and strong.
Monologue dog; but hog not the log.
Howl and growl with a sapient jowl!
Soliloquy suaviloquy.
Soliloquy — it’s a form of ventriloqy.
Soliloquy to school; equivoquy to fool.
Alliterate, synonybate, neologate, solilofate.
Every good soliloquy comes bearing three gifts: fine sense, bold and burr.
A good soliloquy has two arms: One carries powerful emotion, the other bears fine language.
or
Posted: November 28, 2017 in or, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs about alternatives, modern proverbs using the word or, or, proverbs, proverbs about alternatives, proverbs using the word or, randy hasper, the essence of or, the theory of or
Either/or is such a snore.
“Or’s” paddle, toward similarities.
To multiply “or” is at democracy’s core.
Either/or is a limit; it makes subtlety grimace.
“Or” is a small caliber bullet; it can destroy a family.
“Or” defines, signs, dines and whines.
First we invented demands, then we manufactured “or’s.”
“Or” loves to write — with a red pen.
Or-dom saves us from boredom.
Inclusive disjunctions make families function.
“Or” is ore — or mental gore.
in
Posted: November 25, 2017 in in, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs about fitting in, modern proverbs about inclusion, proverbs, proverbs about being in, proverbs about being unique, proverbs about fitting in, proverbs about inclusion, randy hasper
In is a thin win.
To move on, move out and in.
Kin and friend, the best of in.
Left out wants let in.
Schlep it in, you’ll schlep it out.
Bin in.
Safety is best found within.
To get in, stand out.
Our need to win, hard-wired in.
Thin skin then thin within.
House your differences inside of your samenesses.
holes
Posted: November 20, 2017 in holes, UncategorizedTags: holes, modern proverbs, modern proverbs about difficulty, proverbs, proverbs about holes, proverbs about problems, randy hasper, the theory of holes
A hole drives the whole.
Holes delay; holes away.
A hole was once a sign of poverty; now it’s a sign of wealth.
War is a hole in a barrel; peace is a bung.
Wholly, Wholly, Wholly is the Lord God Almighty.
Holes vent, to an ascent.
Every hole in every psyche presents every opportunity.
A hole is a handle; a hurt is a knob.
Voids inspire visions.
An insight is a peephole; an action is a picture window.
Dash the gash.
so
Posted: November 14, 2017 in so, UncategorizedTags: modern proverbs, modern proverbs that use the word so, proverbs, proverbs that use the word so, the poetry of so, the wisdom of so
First know, then so.
After the invention of “no,” came “so.”
So is home, no alone.
If so then go.
“So!” — it’s blow.
“So there!” — beware.
“So?” — that’s a no go.
“So!” fast, ignores the past.
So — plus as — refines like jazz.
To emphasize, refer, compare, little so is everywhere.
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