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Aphorism of the Day

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

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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.

Midori Koto, in Vice and Virtue

2019-09-22

tiny.ag/w4pbwier  ·  submitted 1997

The College Blue Book (data CD)

Treasure your relationships, not your possessions.

Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Love and Hate and Wealth and Poverty

2019-09-21

tiny.ag/jgjax6rp  ·  submitted 1999

Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Success and Failure

2019-09-17

tiny.ag/o4p0buwi  ·  submitted 1997

Not to be able to bear poverty is a shameful thing, but not to know how to chase it away by work is a more shameful thing yet.

Pericles, in Work and Recreation

2019-09-13

tiny.ag/1zzynlyn  ·  submitted 1997

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.

Gilbert Highet, in Art and Literature

2019-09-05

tiny.ag/o7yghtxb  ·  submitted 1999

1984 (paperback)

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.

George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery

2019-09-03

tiny.ag/juykxd68  ·  submitted 1997

The tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the scythe.

Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Success and Failure

2019-09-02

tiny.ag/edpzpyw4  ·  submitted 1997

Life is like walking through snow: every step shows.

Jess Lair, in Vice and Virtue

2019-08-29

tiny.ag/tqq05igh  ·  submitted 1997

Death and taxes may always be with us, but death at least doesn't get any worse.

Unknown, in Life and Death