Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1495–1504 (1833)
2018-04-13
tiny.ag/q2cvf8pi · submitted 1997
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
2018-04-10
tiny.ag/3b0kjrvh · submitted 1997
Helpmate: A wife, or bitter half.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Love and Hate
2018-04-09
tiny.ag/vtwqjzpa · submitted 1997
Work is accomplished by those employees who have not reached their level of incompetence.
Unknown, (probably a misquote of Peter's Principle), in Work and Recreation
2018-04-06
tiny.ag/sr7yv9lh · submitted 1997
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
2018-04-01
tiny.ag/ftbq0ees · submitted 1997
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow.
2018-03-30
tiny.ag/7j6zgqod · 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 · submitted 1997
Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
2018-03-21
tiny.ag/b5nmoo2s · 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 · submitted 1997
Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.
2018-03-14
tiny.ag/0ssbygzn · 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.
1495–1504 (1833)