Aphorism of the Day

Every solution breeds new problems.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

I must catch up with the others, for I am their leader.

Tim McGowan, in Success and Failure

Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

Mark Twain, in Work and Recreation

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

Unknown, in War and Peace

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence; it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines.

Bertrand Russell, in Science and Religion

Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.

Nikita Khrushchev, in Law and Politics

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Henry Kissinger, in Law and Politics

Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

Ludwig van Beethoven, in Success and Failure

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

It's like déjà vu all over again.

Yogi Berra, in Life and Death