Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
Every single day, a very sophisticated computer running state of the art software carefully picks an aphorism from the collection and sends it out to all the nice people who have subscribed to the Aphorism of the Day. If you want to be one of these nice people, create a user profile and start a subscription.
1–10 (1842)
2025-12-11
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
2025-12-10
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
2025-12-09
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
2025-12-08
tiny.ag/bzz5t4jw · submitted 1997
2025-12-07
tiny.ag/tr9cqzsg · submitted 1997
Sex is what women have and men want.
Unknown, in Men and Women
2025-12-06
tiny.ag/dvzdavyb · submitted 1997
The harder you fall, the higher you bounce.
2025-12-05
tiny.ag/j6nzwwaa · submitted 1997
There's a fine line between participation and mockery.
2025-12-04
tiny.ag/0raepug8 · submitted 1997
Jones' Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
2025-12-03
tiny.ag/piw4y7md · submitted 1997
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
2025-12-02
tiny.ag/h3ssnixk · submitted 1997
Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.
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