Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1435–1444 (1808)
2018-01-30
tiny.ag/mwoxawkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
2018-01-20
tiny.ag/bzeqsrni · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
2018-01-16
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · ★★☆☆ Fair (852 ratings) · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
2018-01-14
tiny.ag/oqp628a1 · ★★☆☆ Fair (64 ratings) · submitted 1997
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
2018-01-11
tiny.ag/ef1mcjvo · ★★☆☆ Fair (138 ratings) · submitted 1997
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
2018-01-06
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · ★★☆☆ Fair (319 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
2018-01-04
tiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (637 ratings) · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
2017-12-24
tiny.ag/fjmqiepc · ★★☆☆ Fair (98 ratings) · submitted 1997
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
2017-12-16
tiny.ag/ckgbheun · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you -- but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
2017-12-13
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · ★★☆☆ Fair (261 ratings) · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
1435–1444 (1808)