Aphorism of the Day

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire, in Law and Politics

When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.

Unknown, in Life and Death

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

Voltaire, in Law and Politics

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.

Bertrand Russell, in Work and Recreation

The only thing we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.

Friedrich Hegel, in Science and Religion

My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two twenties.

Douglas Jerrold, in Men and Women

The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.

Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism

They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.

Philip Sidney, in Vice and Virtue