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.
Messes have tresses, suits, ties and fine dresses.
Behind every policy is a roiling frivolity.
Messes are liminal, hard lines tend toward criminal.
Every mess needs a sturdy “Yes.”
A mess inspired civilization; a mess will mend it.
A quest is found within a mess.
A wreck loves a renewal.
Visionaries are best at fixing mess.
We are nothing less than glorious mess.
At the eye of jealousy’s storm is a deadly calm; at the periphery thrives chaos.
Push hard; soothe harder.
Smooth soothes.
Truth soothes bad news.
Good choices bring soft voices.
Create beautiful spaces; go rest in them.
Being in the groove soothes.
Safe soothes savaged.
Sooth others with the salve that remedies yourself.
Soothe yourself with a mountain; completely comfort yourself with a river.
A medicine soothes; a creature comforts.
It’s over when the referee says it’s over.
If you can’t outplay them outplan them.
Failure is success and success is someone’s failure too.
Keep swimming, occasionally change directions.
Break down; brake records.
It’s not the size of your heart that matters; it’s your cholesterol levels.
Run when you can; crawl when you can’t; drag your sorry corpse a little further when you must.
Missed shots miss twice: they miss the goal and they miss the potential that existed within another pass.
Don’t accept any gold medals made out of body parts.
Losing is a branch of learning.
Sport was created for people with a high capacity for failure.
It’s not whether you get knocked down that counts; it’s whether you get concussion checked afterwards.
The meek submit a second cheek.
Boom’s a tomb.
Bellicosity, stupidosity.
Ungentle is mental.
If slapped, yap; don’t smack back.
Peaceful are the peacemakers.
The violent bear it away; the gentle bring it back.
Abhor war; adore peace more.
Reason is no friend of violence.
Violence didn’t originate in a standing army; it combusted out of a smoldering heart.
Good rules should never be upended; they may be suspended.
Suspend a goal; pay a toll.
Love suspends all ends.
Suspend all hate; unlock the gate.
Belief is curved, suspended within bias.
Life strums an A; death hammers an A2.
Man is a suspended thing.
We all hang out between what we know and what we will know.
We are suspended from the school of anxiety by the authority of our own gentleness.
Truth is suspended between roles, wisdom between poles.
What’s yet — upset.
Upset sets up down falls.
We are easily upset; it is difficult to calm us.
Change upsets, then it becalms.
Excited and upset place the same weak bet.
Upset is the thief of time, slick trick and pick, crack chrono-crime.
Success upsets us, but disaster completely upends our psyches.
Equilibrium’s meridian passes through our delirium.
Upset, downplay, keep the lawyers at bay.
Rhyme is fine, same sounds sublime.
The letters that go together know together.
Rhyme prefers proximity, like love.
Rhyme sees the future.
Rhyme chimes the mind.
Rhyming is timing and skillful word chiming.
To make anything ridiculous — rhyme it.
It is a crime to poorly rhyme save to malign the pseudo sublime.
The nursery begot the rhyme.
Rhyme is the melody line of memory.
A thought, a proverb, a rhyme — sublime.
Rhyme — loss prevention.
No one knows; everyone imagines.
Hearts harbor aheads.
The past eats the future.
Ahead is a behind.
The future rushes underneath the feet of the present.
Behind is the rind, ahead good.
Welcome facts; befriend reality.
Fear abandons the future; love woos it back.
Behind is frozen, ahead what’s chosen.
Back okay; ahead yea!
Ignite; excite.
Invite range; excite change.
Like what is; love what will be.
Life is the exciting blind date we marry.
Write; excite.
New excites; old calms.
The mind a veld; ideas are big game.
Anticipation is the better part of amor.
Excitement; ignitement.
Research is sex.
Marriage has causes; divorce has clauses.
Compassion’s because is apathy’s pause.
Because was is fuzz; will be is buzz.
Because springs from does.
All love is born of sweet because.
Confuzzled is caused by bemuzzled.
“Because” frustrates children; it enrages adults.
Children don’t live by “why” alone but by every “because” that proceeds from the mouths of their parents.
The world’s abuzz because because; it sleeps for no apparent reason.
We suffer je ne sais quoi from emotional yaw.
Free is glee.
Options are gentle; one-way is judgmental.
Free is me not bound by thee.
Freedom begins with a deep respect — for ourselves.
Freedom lies within the garden wall.
The obedient child is the free adult.
Love yourself; free me.
Free spirits don’t want to hear it.
The self-appointed critic frees no prisoners.
Allow choices; free the children.
If so, so; if not, no.
Not must be well-fought.
One is bought, another not.
Every ought contains a not.
Love is fraught, with fear not.
Love thinks of you not me.
Health has one-hundred nots.
Tie the knot; untie it not.
Null and non get squat; “yes” receives a lot.
The best defense is a good pretense.
Pretense and you and me is nepenthe.
A sham will wham and bam and slam.
Don’t pretend; there is an end.
In the end you won’t pretend.
To feign unity is to crush community.
Friends don’t pretend — too much.
Affect nothing; imperfect everything.
“Once upon a time” opens upon sublime.
Good pretenses make good neighbors.
The Age is the stage.
The evil gallop harder than the good to their own deaths.
One becomes a pillar; another bites it.
The fool scrubs the night and carries the day out in a basket.
Truth in a village, error in a pillage.
The Tower of Babel and Brueghel played scrabble.
The house on fire warms the neighbors.
Great paintings devour great artists.
When the painter plays the pedagogue, the students enter the artist’s fog.
Details rule the world; particulars govern the universe.
Turvy-topsy, burly-hurly, down-so-upy, Bruegel whirly.
There is a world of paint brushes; there is one Pieter Bruegel..
Run, fly, haul — if not, crawl.
Jet to the continents; amble through the neighborhoods.
Rise like a rocket; fall like a falcon.
Float through your dreams; stomp through reality.
To get a business off the ground, innovate; to keep it aloft, excite.
Fly using neurons; soar using synapses.
Morality is a flight — or a crash site.
Words zip and fly by means of wry.
If you fly off the handle, apologize your way back on.
Time flies; flies take their time.
The wise fly through the eye of the lie.
Hubble, bubble, toil and space rubble.
What we refuse to do defines us.
At the core of every refusal resides a value.
To refine something decline something.
Refuse in whole what harms your soul.
Indecision is cowering: “No” is empowering.
Refusal is in the mind; acceptance is in the heart.
To refuse one thing is to welcome another.
Construct walls; include doors.
Immorality is disloyal; it refuses to defend even it’s own advocates.
Acceptance ennobles; rejection totals.
Succeed then duck.
Fling muck then duck.
Love ducks nothing.
Duck compliments; take criticisms on the chin.
After every failure, duck your own punch.
Rake muck then duck.
A true friend is always found swinging punches beside you.
We all duck, but loyalty comes up swinging.
Email is a form of ducking.
You can’t duck your own muck.
Ideologues should worry; a is an epistemological theory.
There are no a‘s, just rays and bays.
An a is an a is a b to a z.
A is first and last and flirty fast.
A is the indefinite definite.
All you need is a — and the.
A bores; the roars.
A in all; pick and play well.
A is a way of thinking, while blinking.
Ancient thinkers invented a; subsequent ideologues ruined it.
A is non, yet first and strong.
There is some grey ‘tween aye and nay.
I is a romp, champ de la stomp.
Be bold or told.
What I refuse to do with you defines who we are.
I am what I do alone; we are what we do together.
I differentiate therefore we are.
Discovering I is curative, finding we superlative.
I am never not becoming me.
I am some I’s; we tend toward lies.
We know my effect; I know my cause.
I am human, no subcategory of anyone.
I am not you; we are the same.
Beginnings delight; endings
bite.
It’s plan or sham.
See the future; run toward it, hard tackle it.
Plan, deploy; build, enjoy.
Strategize, rest; slave, be blessed.
Plan with your head; build with your heart.
Money loves a plan.
Think for yourself; plan for everyone else.
The plan makes the man.
Design realities with new generalities.
Hard plans replace sands.
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