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.
Sleep pursues the young and eludes the old.
Sleep is care’s caregiver.
Rest a therapist; dream a parodist.
Repose is a pickpocked rose.
Sleep is housekeeping for the brain, janitorial for the sane.
Sleep’s silence soothes.
To freak, try sleep!
The awake sleep hardest.
Too specific — soporific.
I sleep therefore I am.
Love your neighbors; prevent nightmares.
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.
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