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.
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2025-06-25
tiny.ag/vv4beyfe · submitted 1997
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Success and Failure
2025-06-24
tiny.ag/nz2qcagl · submitted 1997
Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.
2025-06-23
tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
2025-06-22
tiny.ag/5nmog9yu · submitted 1997
In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil, in Law and Politics
2025-06-21
tiny.ag/pxbmzdh5 · submitted 1997
Kites rise highest against the wind -- not with it.
2025-06-20
tiny.ag/62i8fdwb · submitted 1997
Sloppy, raggedy-assed old life. I love it. I never want to die.
2025-06-19
tiny.ag/5r2sagdx · submitted 1997
To hit bottom is to fall from grace.
2025-06-18
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
2025-06-17
tiny.ag/5agdml7e · submitted 1997
Even Napoleon had his Watergate.
Yogi Berra, (on Frenchmen in American politics), in Law and Politics
2025-06-16
tiny.ag/rdhwutp3 · submitted 1997
An authority is a person who can tell you more about something than you really care to know.
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