Posts Tagged ‘modern proverbs’

present

Posted: January 31, 2014 in present
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Seize the day; wrestle the hour; sit on the second.

The current is has the best fizz.

To live inside the here — gawk, clap, hoot and cheer!

Hug the now; kiss the “Wow!; take a vow.

Fools drink a case of was; the wise drink up a lake of does.

There is not when is was not.

The present is not was or will, but mill and swill and drill and grill.

The present is the illusion that time is standing still.

Nothing says something like this thing.

The now is ever “Ow!” and “Wow!”

No love is good love like your love.

The present invokes the past and then cheers as death is hauled away feet first by the future.

 

risk

Posted: January 28, 2014 in risk
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Love is a risk; hate is a sure thing.

Risk not, tisk not.

Risk adverse selects reverse.

Every risky venture imagines a safe reward.

A risk is as brisk as a parting kiss.

Assess your risk, adjust your lift.

Work to the top, then duck and drop.

A honored miss will risk a formal kiss.

To eat tomorrow throw seed today.

Life is risky, death a sure thing.

eclectic

Posted: January 12, 2014 in eclectic
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Fools drool for a rule; eclectic’s hectic for electric.

It takes a pox to think outside convention’s box.

Motley shuns the oh-so-snotly.

Shall not, shall so.

Eclectic shifts its own selectric.

It takes a fop to lop the top of reason’s stop.

My mind’s not fond of pro or con.

Eclectic wins what taste offends.

All-embracing is effacing.

Eklektikos removes the dross.

Eclecticism is an open mind flying

forgive

Posted: December 29, 2013 in forgive
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To live, forgive.

To desire to forgive is to begin to do so.

Forgive-stance may keep its distance.

Vengeful optics are myopic-cycloptic.

What wisdom overlooks, foolsdom writes in books.

Remittance has no required forgetance.

What we pardon doesn’t harden.

Exonerate, retain some hate of bait and fate and highest rate.

Defamatory — it’s inflammatory.

To heal a grudge, first do no krudge.

God is the master of the art of forgiveness.

will

Posted: December 27, 2013 in will
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As long as there’s a will, there’s a fray.

Will what you want, then prepare to swerve.

The will’s a pill for Jack and Jill.

When will met will, volition stood still.

Will once; act a bunch.

To will or not to will; now there’s the real high-rolling deal.

With our wills we may reform our souls.

The will is a small rudder, the emotions a great sea.

The will’s the piano that we play all day.

Each soul runs it own bootlegging still, to craft its own strong prohibition will.

With will we mill, swill, grill and shrill, and sometimes kill.

The precious swill of the best thrill we do not will.

demons

Posted: December 24, 2013 in demons
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Demons visit every season, welcomed by our twisted reason.

A demon a day keeps reason at bay.

A demon refined waltzes with mankind.

Keep your enemies close and your demons closer.

One man screamin’ is another man’s demon.

You can’t put all your demons in one casket.

The dope you need is a demon indeed.

The demons help those who only help themselves.

Don’t let a sleeping demon lie.

Greed is the mother of all demons, pride the proud father.

foolery

Posted: December 23, 2013 in foolery
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Tomfoolery is our mental costume jewelry.

Class clowns know no bounds; school scholars wear tight collars.

Wise men’s speeches are never done; fools know when they have won.

The rich grow richer by abusing humanity, but fools wealth up with a sweet consanguinity.

Foolery will fink on wisdom’s wink.

Fools rush in where someone needs to tread.

A family laughing won’t be bashing.

Amuse your wife; avoid the knife.

Foolery has a sportive scent; wisery smells like malcontent.

It takes a great education to reduce a man to no opinion.

Jibber-walky, ribber-talky, hasher-basher’s docky-squacky.

kennings

Posted: December 20, 2013 in kennings
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Spear-din and slaughter-dew, old as old and new as new.

The battle-blade in hell was made, but earth knows how to make a plough.

Battle-grim, dragon-din, safe-world win.

Shepherds-of-evil are sword-hungry medieval.

Gold-friends have dirt ends.

Every bomb’s a melting blade, every man’s a certain fade.

Wielder-of-wonder throws rain and throws thunder.

Stone bright, stone bright, we stone our neighbors, dark with right.

The bold life won is too soon done.

The sky candle loves not the warring-vandal.

A bone-house, our sin-flecked world, brave-saved.

Sword sleep won’t keep; there’s so much more than gore and snore.

Like the wave-floater plying the whale-road, so the Wielder-of-All, safe-sloughs the storm-swashed soul.

The wise word-hoarder is the brave realm warder.

The golden torque is lots of work.

syllabic

Posted: December 17, 2013 in syllabic
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No demi-zemi in the hemi has the power of a femi.

Auto-micro-macro-psycho, demo-proto-vitro-tycho.

Ing your being, dare, be seen.

My meta ology needs no apology.

Re and un are super fun.

Va-va-voom suave-a-ka-boom.

Un if your yum to everyone.

Every -ess isn’t success.

Sub-ly super; dys-ly duper.

De-negged am I; I am psy-high.

One quasi in the bush is worth two anti’s and a shush.

To gen-a-ment de-vi-o-lent.

Death has no fort ‘gainst its own mort.

humility

Posted: November 28, 2013 in humility
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The lack of  humility is a grave disability.

Humility goeth before a curtain call.

Every error gives the gift of more aware.

A bit of humility enhances civility.

Arrogance trips; humility catches.

Humility scoops up what arrogance has run over.

Scurrility, senility, step-fathers of humility.

Modesty hides what’s flaunted by pride.

To know your greatness explore your leastness.

Meekness is the finest weakness.

Servility, scurrility has no bearing on ability.

Pride thinks it’s all that; humility thinks it’s all not.

It will be a ghastly blast; the very first will come in last.

integrity

Posted: November 27, 2013 in integrity
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Integrity knocks; few answer.

Integrity lies in doing the right thing when no one is watching.

Probity stars globally.

Fudgity is smudgity; integrity brings clarity.

Integrity can’t get caught.

Integrity has celebrity.

Compassion begins with a rubble and ends in a soup bowl.

Dishonesty looks over its shoulder; integrity looks down its nose.

Integrity’s losses belong to the bosses.

If something is worth doing, it’s worth doing.

As the sea wall restrains the raging storm, so integrity holds off dishonesty.

Integrity finds its calm in the eye of the storm.

friends

Posted: November 12, 2013 in friends
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Be a chum; keep mum.

Disaster opens the door; good friends walk in.

A friend with proceeds is a friend indeed.

Compassion confers companions.

Keep your friends close, your family closer and your smart phone closest.

Show me your friends; I’ll show you some enemies.

Two are better than one, unless betrayal ends the fun.

As iron sharpens iron, so one tongue sharpens another.

A man without a single friend will set upon all other men.

Be a net; catch friends.

A friend attends the bitter end.

small

Posted: November 10, 2013 in small
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Small and inane will make you sane.

Small holds the rank of swank.

Small in all; bit in every it.

To hold a child is to hold the universe.

Gratitude arrives in bits, ingratitude in blitz and fits.

The pun is mightier than the board.

Small anxieties repeat the first miracle; they makes a universe out of nothing.

Consider everything as if it counts — it does.

The micro-flotsam are forget-some.

Don’t worry about comets, the real danger lies in commas.

The mightiest moment is this quick and quarky nanosecond’s “is.”

details

Posted: November 7, 2013 in details
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Give me details or give me death.

All hail the power of the small detail.

Nothing says something like one thing.

Every rain drop sings the doo wop.

Gratitude lies in minutiae.

The pudding’s proof is tongue and tooth.

Beauty lies to the beholder.

God is in the details; the devil lies in generalities.

Up and down and lark and bark, celebrate the antiquark.

Idealists love generalities; realists love details.

Even the most massive mountain ranges deteriorate into the smallest pieces.

rest

Posted: October 26, 2013 in rest
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Work beware of too much rest, rest of too much work.

Lack of zest must bear the jest.

Boil, roil, toil and moil; wash the sky and rest the soil.

The soul’s steepest declivity is found in lack of industry.

Epiphany’s an industry.

All rest no work is cirque du shirk.

Quest then rest at God’s bequest

Post-work charmed chance sets out to dance.

There is no good work without good rest.

The hardworking mind rejoices in mindlessness.

think

Posted: October 24, 2013 in think
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Plan with your hands; think with your feet.

To muse, recuse and then defuse.

Imply, infer then just go there.

Think to the brink — then jump.

All in; mind off.

Deep deliberates at every depth.

Diet, quiet; stew, renew.

Fools follow formulas, the wise wonk.

Ideate then roller skate.

Think, thank, thunk; avoid a funk.

Mull it all terrestrial ball, the ancient fall, the modern pall.

What you confuse, fix when you muse.

Thinking is gray scaling.

It’s your choice: you can join a political party, or you can keep thinking.

perception

Posted: September 26, 2013 in perception
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There is me in every she and he and we.

Eyes are made of cries and sighs and also highs and sometimes lies.

We crack perception’s door, then slam it on reality’s foot.

The more accurate the perception the more obvious the imperfection.

We meld our maze and map to match.

Self-perception loves deception.

The leaning tower of perception will one day fall to the facts.

We are what we can’t see.

What we don’t percieve, we invent.

Constancy is perception’s best friend.

Reality is dark; perception is a flashlight.

Those who don’t trust their eyes will fall down in broad daylight.

hungry

Posted: September 23, 2013 in hungry
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We’re simple guts with endless “buts.”

A table knife can win a wife and slice and dice a healthy life.

Nothing beats busy like hungry.

Haste lays waste to taste.

Hunger jukes; surfeit pukes.

Hunger created the shotgun — and the megaton.

Hungry worms its well-worn way to satiety.

Hunger breeds what it can’t feed.

The simple stomached are many-minded.

Blessed are the hungry for they will never be lonely.

As long as you are hungry, I am a philanthropist.

exodus

Posted: September 11, 2013 in exodus
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Exits begin above the chin.

Exit signs show up in whines.

The thrilling climb beats the couch behind.

Upon abandoning our pots, we find food on the ground.

Exit every failure accelerating.

Comforts anesthetize; dangers resuscitize.

Bigger bravely farewells smaller.

Speedboat away from the harmful; drain the ocean behind you.

When ethnicity grows up, she sneaks out of the house to party with humanity.

The worst thing about going back is what you will miss by not going forward.

Defamation is trepanation; by it we escape enskullment.

To leave is to arrive.

Every slave is a reluctant Moses.

It takes a tearful leave-taking for an individual to become a colony, a tumultuous departure for a colony to become a nation and a grand and epic exodus for a nation to become a loving world.

explanations

Posted: September 9, 2013 in explanations
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Campaign, refrain or feign insane, but never try to just explain.

At the center of the most carefully worded explanation reigns confusion.

Thoughts are quick and so are crimes, but explanations take lifetimes.

Explicate, elucidate, and excavate yourself of hate.

Fools explain; the wise refrain.

What we explain still carries pain.

Explanations are the Legos of civilizations.

What we understand, we control — maybe.

A rule frightens what an explanation coaxes back.

One conflagration; one thousand explanations.

We explain, then throw a psychic dead bolt.

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