Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1425–1434 (1808)
2018-02-28
tiny.ag/z0pv1omm · ★★☆☆ Fair (46 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.
2018-02-26
tiny.ag/usitewde · ★★☆☆ Fair (227 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anxiety is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
2018-02-25
tiny.ag/umrsfwb2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (188 ratings) · submitted 1997
We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.
2018-02-22
tiny.ag/e6ekgqrh · ★★☆☆ Fair (211 ratings) · submitted 1997
Familiarity breeds contempt.
2018-02-17
tiny.ag/lu1wfeec · ★★☆☆ Fair (128 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
2018-02-15
tiny.ag/yqwcpnfd · ★★☆☆ Fair (402 ratings) · submitted 1997
To live a perfect life, you must ask nothing, give nothing, and expect nothing.
2018-02-11
tiny.ag/jpv6wv9c · ★★☆☆ Fair (340 ratings) · submitted 1997
To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
Joan Powers, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2018-02-07
tiny.ag/d5uig8oy · ★★☆☆ Fair (1187 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Son House
If I didn't have a problem with alcohol, I'd drink all the time.
Havelock Ellis, (from biographer's notes), in Food and Drink and Vice and Virtue
2018-02-03
tiny.ag/obxpwig2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (72 ratings) · submitted 1997
Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.
2018-01-31
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
1425–1434 (1808)