Aphorism of the Day

Learning music by reading about it is like making love by mail.

Luciano Pavarotti, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account.

Doug Hofstadter, in Success and Failure

Join the Army: travel to exotic distant lands, meet exciting, unusual people and kill them.

Unknown, in War and Peace

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

Aristotle Onassis, in Men and Women

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Euripides, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

Mother Teresa, in Altruism and Cynicism

Humility is the first of the virtues -- for other people.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, in Vice and Virtue

Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well.

E. Merrill Root, in Happiness and Misery and Work and Recreation

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism

A bachelor is a selfish, undeserving guy who has cheated some woman out of a divorce.

Don Quinn, in Love and Hate and Men and Women