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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

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2026-06-25

tiny.ag/ejvaborl  ·  submitted 1997

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

Winston Churchill, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-06-24

tiny.ag/xpfjtqx9  ·  submitted 1997

Parkinson's Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to increase regardless of the amount of work to be done.

C. Northcote Parkinson, in Work and Recreation

2026-06-23

tiny.ag/rl8ocqtb  ·  submitted 1997

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

William Osler, in Life and Death

2026-06-22

tiny.ag/uqvndhdp  ·  submitted 1997

The College Blue Book (data CD)

Become addicted to constant and neverending self-improvement.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Success and Failure

2026-06-21

tiny.ag/peqmtrl9  ·  submitted 1997

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Carl Gustav Jung, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-06-20

tiny.ag/kd1gueir  ·  submitted 1997

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

Oscar Wilde, in Altruism and Cynicism

2026-06-19

tiny.ag/0y72zrbp  ·  submitted 1997

It is always brave to say what everyone thinks.

Georges Duhamel, in Vice and Virtue

2026-06-18

tiny.ag/atei0hjc  ·  submitted 1997

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to work.

Robert Frost, in Work and Recreation

2026-06-17

tiny.ag/jp6bkest  ·  submitted 1997

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-06-16

tiny.ag/ndewfsya  ·  submitted 1997

The great question -- which I have not been able to answer -- is, "What does a woman want?"

Sigmund Freud, in Men and Women