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.
1505–1514 (1808)
2017-05-19
tiny.ag/8hodlqqe · ★★☆☆ Fair (451 ratings) · submitted 1997
People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confessor of character.
2017-05-16
tiny.ag/7gz85bqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
2017-05-15
tiny.ag/4horecyq · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
2017-05-14
tiny.ag/avqob1zr · ★★☆☆ Fair (28 ratings) · submitted 1997
Blessed are the meek for they shall inhibit the earth.
2017-05-10
tiny.ag/zi6fgh0w · ★★☆☆ Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997
Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible.
2017-05-05
tiny.ag/4zhqdoip · ★★☆☆ Fair (397 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life is a tale told by an idiot -- full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare, Macbeth, in Life and Death
2017-04-25
tiny.ag/x8mhqa3j · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
How can you expect to govern a country that has two hundred and forty-six kinds of cheese?
2017-04-22
tiny.ag/xrmys3sk · ★★☆☆ Fair (358 ratings) · submitted 1997
Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.
Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
2017-04-19
tiny.ag/qn68ckxs · ★★☆☆ Fair (203 ratings) · submitted 1997
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.
2017-04-04
tiny.ag/vykjqus7 · ★★☆☆ Fair (303 ratings) · submitted 1997
Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.
Unknown, in War and Peace
1505–1514 (1808)