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 (1854)
2026-08-06
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
2026-08-05
tiny.ag/cxkiivxs · submitted 1997
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2026-08-04
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
2026-08-03
tiny.ag/ckjtcepm · submitted 1998
If only bad habits could be broken as easily as hearts!
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Love and Hate and Vice and Virtue
2026-08-02
tiny.ag/xm0eggq6 · submitted 1997
The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations.
2026-08-01
tiny.ag/kygnp58l · submitted 1997
To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.
2026-07-31
tiny.ag/xhlm9fsi · submitted 1997
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
2026-07-30
tiny.ag/jmkw4qmh · submitted 1997
Life is a fatal, sexually transmitted disease.
2026-07-29
tiny.ag/cwprmiyl · submitted 1997
As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.
2026-07-28
tiny.ag/pxnbu4ey · submitted 1997
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
1–10 (1854)