Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1512–1521 (1833)
2018-01-31
tiny.ag/6bpzcbnv · submitted 1997
Ninety-Ninety Rule of Project Schedules: The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent.
2018-01-30
tiny.ag/mwoxawkr · submitted 1997
Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
2018-01-20
tiny.ag/bzeqsrni · submitted 1997
Wise men make proverbs; fools repeat them.
2018-01-16
tiny.ag/dhpqxvke · submitted 1997
Talkers are no good doers.
William Shakespeare, Henry VI, in Success and Failure
2018-01-14
tiny.ag/oqp628a1 · submitted 1997
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
2018-01-06
tiny.ag/4agfdmeh · submitted 1997
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
2018-01-04
tiny.ag/ctd7inn0 · submitted 1997
I got a simple rule about everybody. If you don't treat me right, shame on you.
2017-12-24
tiny.ag/fjmqiepc · submitted 1997
Smile, it's better than a poke in the eye.
2017-12-16
tiny.ag/ckgbheun · submitted 1997
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you -- but if you really make them think they'll hate you.
2017-12-13
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
1512–1521 (1833)