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.
1375–1384 (1833)
2019-05-13
tiny.ag/o2nztemh · submitted 1997
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
2019-05-10
tiny.ag/owyunzte · submitted 1997
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
Winston Churchill, (on formal declarations of war), in War and Peace
2019-05-04
tiny.ag/ubdtlbzz · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
When you're angry, take a deep breath and count to ten. When you're really angry, swear.
2019-05-03
tiny.ag/ojpztwu9 · submitted 1997
Born a saint, die a sinner -- born a sinner, die a saint.
2019-04-30
tiny.ag/np6qfeud · submitted 1997
Everything we really need to know we learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2019-04-28
tiny.ag/jw1vdna4 · submitted 1997
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
2019-04-27
tiny.ag/wjnnpmri · submitted 1997
The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.
2019-04-19
tiny.ag/9djxhqx6 · submitted 1997
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
2019-04-18
tiny.ag/8awizecn · submitted 1997
Expect everything, and anything seems nothing. Expect nothing, and anything seems everything.
2019-04-17
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
1375–1384 (1833)