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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.

2026-09-03

tiny.ag/ey8g1nc6  ·  submitted 1997

Trouble is only an opportunity in work clothes.

Henry J. Kaiser, in Work and Recreation

2026-09-02

tiny.ag/d7wzdup5  ·  submitted 1997

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.

John F. Kennedy, in Law and Politics

2026-09-01

tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj  ·  submitted 1997

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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...

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

2026-08-30

tiny.ag/wnceow6i  ·  submitted 1997

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Paul Gauguin, in Success and Failure

2026-08-29

tiny.ag/axybc0uz  ·  submitted 1997

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

Daisaku Ikeda, in Success and Failure

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.

W. C. Fields, in Vice and Virtue

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.

Tom Clancy, in Art and Literature

2026-08-25

tiny.ag/prynfiw1  ·  submitted 1997

Life is too important to take seriously.

Corky Siegel, in Life and Death