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Aphorism of the Day

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

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2025-09-16

tiny.ag/dvyytf1b  ·  submitted 1997

No one really knows enough to be a pessimist.

Norman Cousins, in Success and Failure

2025-09-15

tiny.ag/oxoy2gsu  ·  submitted 1997

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

Winston Churchill, in Success and Failure

2025-09-14

tiny.ag/wonmj58n  ·  submitted 1999 by David B. Cole, Jr.

Reality is subordinate to perception.

David B. Cole, Jr., in Wisdom and Ignorance

2025-09-13

tiny.ag/fkz5efpm  ·  submitted 1997

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

Carl Sandburg, in Happiness and Misery

2025-09-12

tiny.ag/toy71ing  ·  submitted 1997

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, in Love and Hate

2025-09-11

tiny.ag/f65xdmkd  ·  submitted 1997

You are not what you think you are, you are not what they think you are, but you could be what you think they think you are.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

2025-09-10

tiny.ag/nzeglr2h  ·  submitted 1997

In the end, everything is a gag.

Charlie Chaplin, in Life and Death

2025-09-09

tiny.ag/abelggxc  ·  submitted 1997

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.

Bob Edwards, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2025-09-08

tiny.ag/2lhdnopk  ·  submitted 1997

No man can get through me but through my act.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Success and Failure

2025-09-07

tiny.ag/voc2uwcw  ·  submitted 1997

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance