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.
1455–1464 (1808)
2017-11-18
tiny.ag/xu5z217a · ★★☆☆ Fair (299 ratings) · submitted 1997
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
2017-11-17
tiny.ag/5lwhiz1c · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
We come and go just like ripples in a stream.
2017-11-11
tiny.ag/myqpc8fj · ★★☆☆ Fair (897 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Mindy Romero
Don't do whatever you like -- like whatever you do.
2017-11-06
tiny.ag/hcgfyxv9 · ★★☆☆ Fair (23 ratings) · submitted 1997
A .44 magnum beats four aces.
2017-11-01
tiny.ag/eccda2wq · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism, in Vice and Virtue
2017-10-31
tiny.ag/yvbktsoi · ★★☆☆ Fair (284 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.
2017-10-30
tiny.ag/undqbo35 · ★★☆☆ Fair (244 ratings) · submitted 1997
Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.
2017-10-25
tiny.ag/826svnit · ★★☆☆ Fair (818 ratings) · submitted 1998
Every soldier is an enemy.
2017-10-24
tiny.ag/zo3ef1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (110 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people are sympathetic; others are just pathetic.
2017-10-23
tiny.ag/yvxqb7s2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1183 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not the opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed the same kind.
1455–1464 (1808)