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 (1858)
2026-09-30
tiny.ag/zdywajhx · submitted 1997
Children in the front seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children.
2026-09-29
tiny.ag/piklxjab · submitted 1997
There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
2026-09-28
tiny.ag/slywabar · submitted 1997
Only the educated are free.
2026-09-27
tiny.ag/yzyptgt2 · submitted 1997
The world's greatest heroes are the world's greatest fuck-ups.
2026-09-26
tiny.ag/ki5uq3ph · submitted 1997
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
2026-09-25
tiny.ag/l0ggy3oy · submitted 1999
'Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
Alexander Pope, (from Golden Treasury of the Familiar), in Wisdom and Ignorance
2026-09-24
tiny.ag/6kkjfy08 · submitted 1997
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
2026-09-23
tiny.ag/kl7xzzq3 · submitted 1997
An eye for an eye would make the whole world blind.
2026-09-22
tiny.ag/zsy8hdo3 · submitted 1997
My father must have had some elementary education, for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately.
2026-09-21
tiny.ag/rxjp4mey · submitted 1997
Most plans are just inaccurate predictions.
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