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 (1833)
2025-07-09
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
2025-07-08
tiny.ag/tsfy8mui · submitted 1997
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
2025-07-07
tiny.ag/nslm4fyi · submitted 1997
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
2025-07-06
tiny.ag/nkplriz2 · submitted 1997
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
2025-07-05
tiny.ag/cuh1ej24 · submitted 1997
He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.
2025-07-04
tiny.ag/otklgivp · submitted 1999
Living well is the best revenge.
George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, in Happiness and Misery
2025-07-03
tiny.ag/27fahwgf · submitted 1997
A computer can make as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working for 20 years.
2025-07-02
tiny.ag/aejz1cav · submitted 1997
If life doesn't offer a game worth playing, then invent a new one.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Happiness and Misery
2025-07-01
tiny.ag/c5yxdobt · submitted 1997
In the end, we will conserve only what we love. We will love only what we understand. We will understand only what we are taught.
2025-06-30
tiny.ag/1bbjwdu7 · submitted 1997
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern; no idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
1–10 (1833)