Posts Tagged ‘modern proverbs’

traffic

Posted: April 24, 2012 in traffic
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Traffic is neither good or bad, but thinking makes it slow.

How poor are they who have not patience, what traffic ever cleared but by degree.

How bitter a thing it is to look into a Fararri and see another man’s eyes!

What’s in a name? That which we call a detour by any other name will still frustrate the heck out of you.

Uneasy lies the road that wears the crown.

The gestures of angry drivers have no eloquence; their fingers are yet unlearned.

The freeway has twelve lanes yet the comutes never does run smooth.

There ‘s daggers in men’s bumpers.

Fair is foul, and foul is fair — from the tailpipe.

Nothing almost sees miracles but horsepower.

Slower and slower and slower, creeps in our petty road pace as we age.

Taffic is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying something whacked out about us.

protection

Posted: April 23, 2012 in protecting
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One of the great goals of life is to build strong walls — with gates.

The privileged function of a person is to protect.

Fools find groups to guard — everywhere.

In dangerous times the privileged protect themselves.

Those who stop massacres, they are the heroes of humanity.

War to protect is still war that destroys.

Harming brings an ignominious end to a fine career.

It is the strange disorder of man that he will cheat on his wife one day and take a bullet for his comrade the next.

We will only protect the emotions of others after we have learned to protect our own.

Build places of recovery for the damaged; this may one day serve you well.

As a law protects a business, so a good leader protects his people.

To pray is to protect.

disability

Posted: April 10, 2012 in disability
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A disability is an opportunity.

On the edge of disability laps the beginning of love.

Normal is who I am, not who you want me to be.

A cure is a loss.

In an unjust society a difference damns you.

Time is disability’s best friend.

Happiness lies in acceptance — and a dollop of hope.

When reason is disabled rules rush to the rescue.

Disability breeds contentment.

Verbal needs a muzzle; mute needs a smile.

Those least able to critique me are the most glad to see me.

The heartbreak of disability lies in the impossibility of normalcy.

Disability  is a community.

A consistent pattern is disability’s constant friend.

superheroes

Posted: March 26, 2012 in superheroes
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Inadequacy created the superhero.

Our only hope; throw a golden lasso around the goverment.

It is myth that one superhero can save the planet; it is reality that a bunch of ordinary people working together can.

Superheroes need only one confidant, the rest of us require several support groups and a therapist.

What troubles Batman troubles us all — something we remember about our parents.

Fear is green Krytonite; love is an unstoppable power.

A devastated past is the fuel for a superpowered future.

Superheroes wear costumes because naked acrobats just scare people.

As the Hulk is energized by anger so passions fuel us all.

Superheroes add to our entertainment — and subtract our cash.

Superheroes are overrated; they make lousy spouses.

After one is super we need them to again be ordinary.

The problem with our iron clad men is that they become more iron than men.

loyalty

Posted: February 13, 2012 in loyalty
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Love, your name is loyalty.

Loyalty sits on the edge of the bed when no one comes to call.

Traitors stab you with their tips; the loyal smack you on the lips.

Loyalties no need trophies.

Loyalty loses nothing by fearing to attempt.

Loyalty kisses fragility on both cheeks.

Loyalty is always gushing behind her lover’s back.

Loyalty can hold hands for sixty years without tiring.

Love is always loyal and whatever is not loyal is not love.

Royalty loves loyalty.

Loyalty is the soul of kin.

Loyalty has no mean and hungry look.

politics

Posted: February 7, 2012 in politics
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Politicians are like drunks; it takes a few brews for them to start feeling normal.

A vote is a rifle, Twitter a sidewinder missile.

Jealousy is the energy drink of ambition.

Politicians of a feather vote together.

If you aren’t happy with who you are, run for public office.

I fear politicians, especially when they come bearing rebates.

When large weapons are present, peacemakers are absent.

To become the one is to become the many.

Good politicians win elections and lose enemies.

To master the art of politics you must learn to take credit for what other people have done.

The cure for transparency is political office.

The first job of the politician is to protect the public — from politicians.

Evil leaders love power; good leaders love the powerless.

Tragedy is for those who feel; comedy is for those who think; politics is for those who don’t.

Politic is not political.

Political leadership is dangerous to followership.

What you must do to win an election generally disqualifies you from being elected.

When a political campaign reduces a candidate to smiles, handshakes, slogans and promises then that is what they are.

Man is a vicious elected animal.

Politics is public brawl, in suit and tie, on hill, in hall.

 


 

acceptance

Posted: February 4, 2012 in acceptance
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Gentleness with others thrives in the very places we shelter our own weaknesses.

Acceptance slides the handcuffed a key.

To love someone to health is to love yourself.

Acceptance shines in the eyes lit by the heart.

As all can see, I am what you will let me be.

What I do not accept I murder and leave lying in a pool of judgment.

Acceptance at last, debrides us of the wounded past.

The house of acceptance is the home of the condemned.

The blamed have a unique opportunity — to stop blaming.

I am not safe with you if you do not love yourself.

The judged learn not to judge.

Your safety lies within my love of myself.

The condemned have an opportunity; they can make a sharp turn toward perfection.

rhetoric

Posted: January 10, 2012 in rhetoric
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To antithesis is human, to simile divine, to metaphor angelic, metonymy a shrine.

Amplification is a confectionery  — rhetorical ice cream, sematic cherry.

Under Queen Synecdoche humans are derrièrecdoche. 

Conjure a seduction tonic; fashion it hyperbatonic.

Analogy is the little mouse who rules the mighty lion’s house.

Utter the fancy dancy, fancy prancy epizeuxistic stutter — it’s schmancy.

Aposiopesis leaves it to the imagination to …

Slam, bam, pow, pop, fizz — onomatopoeia is show biz.

Litotes is the word assassin who understabs his hapless victim.

Smitten written chiastically, chiastically written smittenly.

She calmly talked him off the ledge — epistrophe, epistrophe, epistrophe — from the edge.

Zeugma flirts, prozeugma courts, diazeugma chorts, hypozeugma warts — then all mort, bort and cavort out the modern quartzy doortz.

To anaphora, or not to anaphora —  that is the anaphora.

Ton-like lies the noun that wears the hyperbolic crown.

fun

Posted: December 19, 2011 in fun
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The very best fun leaves none undone.

Work to one, another’s fun.

Fun rides on a rollicking river of justice.

Blessed are the very fun; they shall inherit everyone.

The right pun makes even the left foot fun.

Repartee’s the fun for you and me.

A drunk entertains a drunk; a clear mind makes the whole world laugh.

Ethical’s symmetrical; immoral a misshappen whorl.

Happy fun is sure to come with spouse and daughter and a son.

Go to the antic thou slogger.

education

Posted: December 13, 2011 in education
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All our tries spring from our why’s.

Knowledge is the boss, except when there’s a loss.

The most honest most educate.

Young luminaries blow; old volcanos flow.

We will repeat what we don’t interpret.

Experience has a lesson for those who avoid it.

The page is wise but not like the eyes

The facts chide, opinions divide.

A lesson is a dish; a course is a meal.

Difficulty earns a degree, a brokenness, a PhD.

 

beginnings

Posted: November 3, 2011 in beginnings
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Rejoice in small beginnings; the first two-ton pumpkin will begin with a seed.

Beginnings are like guppies; get one and you have twenty.

End an ending by beginning a beginning.

At the end of parenting is the opportunity to begin the marriage again.

If you want to learn from your failures, start a small business.

You can’t just do it unless you just start it.

After the tsunami we surf, sail and fish again.

The beginning is the fastest way to the end.

The first is in the last, and last lives in the first.

An end is made out of a series of beginnings.

Science is a beginning built on an ending.

The roots of the small tree one day crack the foundation of a large building.

If you want something to happen do nothing — it will.

 

environment

Posted: October 31, 2011 in environment
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The wilderness is a cafe; the goal is to stay off the plate.

Love earth; love life.

Our planet, five stars; the guests, none.

Coffee good hot; earth not.

The city heals us from the country and the country from the city.

Fanged sin and all the world not kin.

A forest is a cathedral.

The first environment to respect is within.

A star-spangled sky advertizes a healthy earth.

Gardens are safe wildernesses.

Oxygen, hydrogen and carbon form a choir.

Tsunamis, hurricanes and earthquakes ended romanticism.

technology

Posted: October 18, 2011 in technology
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To topple tyrants tweet.

The family that Skypes together stays together.

Modern living is 700 friends on Facebook and no one to dinner.

Tech suffers fate; wise packs its own update.

A flat screen is no substitute for a natural scene.

Old technologies rule  —  wheels and wings and bullets cruel.

It is the prerogative of man to perish at the hands of the machines he constructs.

Technology has shrunk the globe to the size of the ear; compassion brings us close enough to hear.

Fire bookends history; it cooked the first meal; it will cook the last.

The smart phone put the whole world in a pocket.

Machines expand minds, and shrink our souls.

We vaporize the hidden eyes; morality turns into lies.

Technology isn’t turning space into junk, we are.

Technology is not adverse to making our world better — or worse.

health

Posted: October 17, 2011 in health
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Health is wealth.

Calm is an anti-accident.

Unhealthy emotions follow family commotions.

Avoid gyms; you don’t want to live forever.

Dying is a healthy choice.

Bodily functions are common compunctions.

An apple a day keeps the proctologist at bay.

A proverb applied is a doctor inside.

Late to bed, late to oblige is healthy, stealthy and teenage.

Healthy psyches thrive in unhealthy bodies.

Oceans are anti-depressants, mountains selective-serotonin reuptake inhibitors.

Acceptance is an analgesic.

The carotenoids heal.

Deserts are prescriptions.

Health foods, dutiful; tasty foods, beautiful.

Sleep is an antibody.

Health is harmony within.

Love is health.

spirituality

Posted: October 13, 2011 in spirituality
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Spiritually speaking, losing is winning.

Reality — it’s a branch of spirituality.

Spirituality contains two dangers — gating, and chrome plating.

The most spiritual, don’t know it.

Spirituality exists when broken servants wash the feet of diseased children.

False spirituality builds a checkpoint, true constructs an open road.

Spirituality’s not piety; it’s rough and tough society.

Your spirituality exists within your next act of compassion.

A holy proximity to unholy people is the sign of spiritual maturity.

It is better to feed others than eat at a church potluck.

Spirituality goes silent when it tolerates what’s violent.

endings

Posted: October 11, 2011 in endings
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It takes more courage to end a thing than to begin it.

Beginnings change endings to sendings.

Endings are bendings.

Tough endings sprout tender beginnings.

Every ending is a beginning.

The end of enabling is the beginning of responsibility.

The wise begin with the end in mind; the realistic end with the end in mind.

When we cannot remember how we began, we cannot see how we will end.

Love is an antitoxin; it cures us from poisonous bites.

At the end of my fingertips is the beginning of you.

Love ends harmful relationships; self-hate, it endures them.

In the end, God created the beginning.

Accepting the end of each day is a dress rehearsal for accepting the end of the last day.

junk

Posted: October 4, 2011 in junk
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Don’t lock your junk in a hope trunk.

It is much easier to get rid of your children than their junk.

If you fill up your garage with cars, where will you park your junk?

A garage sale is about taking ownership of the means of reduction.

Mold, rust and dry rot turn one decade’s treasure into another decade’s junk.

Life begins pre-junk, enters mid-junk and ends post-junk.

Craig's List: how one man's junk becomes another man's.

Sex sells, but not like junk.

Selling junk is the world's oldest obsession.

To perfect your prophetic gift, visit land fills and junk yards.

A day can turn a whole city into junk — Otsuchi, Japan.

To understand the end of the world,  visit a junkyard.

anxiety

Posted: September 26, 2011 in anxiety
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Anxiety is a virus; you can catch it in a crisis.

Anxiety is sentient; relief is merely jubilant.

Anti-anxiety medication is found in taking charge.

Anxiety oppresses its neighbor, but love hugs even those far off.

Worry subtracts, anxiety divides; love adds and multiplies.

Bravery imagines the worst, then proceeds.

Avoid calamity; disobey anxiety.

Anxiety whispers danger, but action quiets a false report.

Be worry-free, imperfectly.

Prayer is a serotonin reuptake inhibitor.

Good walks, good books, good music, good friends and good meals are good cures for anxious hearts.

shame

Posted: September 20, 2011 in shame
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Blame shames; approval fames.

We have done wrong, we are still strong.

Guilt confesses to some grime; shame believes it is the crime.

Guilt opens up the door; shame bores into the core.

Shame is triggered; everyone shamed was once shot.

Fail and feel guilty; think yourself a failure and feel shame.

Shame thrives alone; it dies among safe friends.

Healthy vulnerability is good shame therapy.

Shame’s inane.

The beginning of forgiveness is the end of shame.

To recover from shame do the opposite thing.

Defeat your shame by going sane.

We were made with no shame; we can go there again.

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