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 (1856)
2026-09-03
tiny.ag/ey8g1nc6 · submitted 1997
Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.
2026-09-02
tiny.ag/d7wzdup5 · submitted 1997
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
2026-09-01
tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj · submitted 1997
Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.
2026-08-31
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
2026-08-30
tiny.ag/wnceow6i · submitted 1997
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
2026-08-29
tiny.ag/axybc0uz · submitted 1997
With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
2026-08-28
tiny.ag/p3i4etjg · submitted 1997
'Twas a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
2026-08-27
tiny.ag/tusapfzm · submitted 1997
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan, The Philosophy of Despair, in Vice and Virtue
2026-08-26
tiny.ag/i0nu42ok · submitted 1997
The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
2026-08-25
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
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