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.
2021-10-08
tiny.ag/bncpxtdu · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm very critical of the U.S., but get me outside the country and all of a sudden I can't bring myself to say one nasty thing about the U.S.
2021-10-07
tiny.ag/6v4py5gm · ★★☆☆ Fair (30 ratings) · submitted 1997
A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.
2021-10-06
tiny.ag/poux0n5r · ★★☆☆ Fair (851 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
2021-10-05
tiny.ag/ngzfgtnp · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.
2021-10-04
tiny.ag/yfqykgpj · ★★☆☆ Fair (460 ratings) · submitted 1997
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2021-10-03
tiny.ag/7guwnmr1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (879 ratings) · submitted 1997
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
2021-10-02
tiny.ag/viymqgdo · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum -- "I think that I think, therefore I think that I am."
2021-10-01
tiny.ag/u1yhdeyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (819 ratings) · submitted 1999
Trust everybody, but cut the cards.
2021-09-30
tiny.ag/mtktl96r · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down.
2021-09-29
tiny.ag/58hbs9pq · ★★☆☆ Fair (67 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.