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.
1415–1424 (1808)
2018-03-30
tiny.ag/7j6zgqod · ★★☆☆ Fair (359 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat.
Unknown, in Law and Politics and Men and Women
2018-03-23
tiny.ag/5i2ylath · ★★☆☆ Fair (313 ratings) · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
2018-03-21
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · ★★☆☆ Fair (837 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see Paradise as Hell; and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as Paradise.
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, in Law and Politics
2018-03-17
tiny.ag/np9hfjzk · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
2018-03-14
tiny.ag/0ssbygzn · ★★☆☆ Fair (127 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
2018-03-12
tiny.ag/ynrgodhh · ★★☆☆ Fair (151 ratings) · submitted 1997
Death is nature's way of recycling human beings.
2018-03-06
tiny.ag/dmjofbk9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (941 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Glenn Troester
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
2018-03-05
tiny.ag/xysizfch · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
2018-03-03
tiny.ag/5bldgyv4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (312 ratings) · submitted 1997
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
2018-03-02
tiny.ag/16qnix2l · ★★☆☆ Fair (183 ratings) · submitted 1997
To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
1415–1424 (1808)