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.
1325–1334 (1833)
2019-10-29
tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · submitted 1997
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
2019-10-28
tiny.ag/pcf4akr5 · submitted 1999
We are more apt to catch the vices of others than their virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.
Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1.247, in Vice and Virtue
2019-10-23
tiny.ag/ixldmygb · submitted 1997
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw, in Altruism and Cynicism and Vice and Virtue
2019-10-17
tiny.ag/qe3bg8q5 · submitted 1997
Experience is not what happens to you. It's what you do with what happens to you.
2019-10-16
tiny.ag/r8irgp4q · submitted 1997
Every government is run by liars and nothing they say should be believed.
2019-10-12
tiny.ag/dcbu6t7e · submitted 1997
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward.
2019-10-08
tiny.ag/v6pxskz7 · submitted 1999 by Dr Nathan Rozenfarb
Close the book and open your heart.
Nathan Rozenfarb, (on religious conflicts), in War and Peace
2019-10-02
tiny.ag/s4bygqtn · submitted 1997
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.
2019-09-25
tiny.ag/wrcm1vhx · submitted 1997
The more I know men, the more I love my dog.
Unknown, in Men and Women
2019-09-23
tiny.ag/t2fxueny · submitted 1997
Honor isn't about making the right choices. It's about dealing with the consequences.
1325–1334 (1833)