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.
1495–1504 (1808)
2017-06-26
tiny.ag/ijbwubwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (118 ratings) · submitted 1997
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
2017-06-19
tiny.ag/lmbiznpc · ★★☆☆ Fair (371 ratings) · submitted 1997
It's not over until it's over.
2017-06-18
tiny.ag/sjrepy9y · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
2017-06-17
tiny.ag/5ce9bwks · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Mistakes are often the stepping stones to utter failure.
2017-06-12
tiny.ag/vm8pwhyr · ★★☆☆ Fair (854 ratings) · submitted 1998 by nthomas
The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.
2017-06-09
tiny.ag/uakf86jl · ★★☆☆ Fair (270 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman has to be twice as good as a man, to be regarded as half that clever.
Unknown, in Men and Women
2017-06-06
tiny.ag/zmis8rln · ★★☆☆ Fair (14 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in.
2017-06-05
tiny.ag/ct4xj6gg · ★★☆☆ Fair (533 ratings) · submitted 1997
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
2017-06-04
tiny.ag/ggsm1y50 · ★★☆☆ Fair (81 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never mistake motion for action.
2017-05-22
tiny.ag/u5uejalg · ★★☆☆ Fair (387 ratings) · submitted 1999
Never give a sucker an even break and never smarten up a chump.
1495–1504 (1808)