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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

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2026-06-01

tiny.ag/mnlokyg7  ·  submitted 1997

The College Blue Book (data CD)

Learn not only to find what you like, learn to like what you find.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery

2026-05-31

tiny.ag/9zpbxeoc  ·  submitted 1997

Some people speak from experience; others, from experience, don't speak.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-05-30

tiny.ag/aqk8szqi  ·  submitted 1997

Change is good, but dollars are better.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

2026-05-29

tiny.ag/62i8fdwb  ·  submitted 1997

Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.

Dennis Trudell, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

2026-05-28

tiny.ag/h8gckidt  ·  submitted 1997

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.

Leon Trotsky, in Life and Death

2026-05-27

tiny.ag/eswahi1x  ·  submitted 1997

It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased.

Kehlog Albran, in Success and Failure

2026-05-26

tiny.ag/8dojvkdg  ·  submitted 1997

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

2026-05-25

tiny.ag/4awpxubp  ·  submitted 1997

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer, in Law and Politics

2026-05-24

tiny.ag/anqu4m95  ·  submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion

2026-05-23

tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg  ·  submitted 1997

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.

Albert Einstein, in Science and Religion