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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

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2017-09-29

tiny.ag/hcogkx8m  ·  submitted 1997

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

2017-09-26

tiny.ag/zt1r3of5  ·  submitted 1997

The chief cause of problems is solutions.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

2017-09-24

tiny.ag/g42cvkx0  ·  submitted 1997

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.

John D. Rockefeller, in Vice and Virtue and Wealth and Poverty

2017-09-11

tiny.ag/nsh95i8e  ·  submitted 1997

People who claim they don't let little things bother them have never slept in a room with a single mosquito.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

2017-09-07

tiny.ag/hvtbkoet  ·  submitted 1997

When everyone is against you, it means you are absolutely wrong -- or you are absolutely right.

Albert Guinon, in Success and Failure

2017-09-03

tiny.ag/y5vxd29g  ·  submitted 1997

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

Josh Billings, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2017-08-29

tiny.ag/yy2e1ad8  ·  submitted 1997

Why bother building any more nuclear warheads until we've used the ones we have?

Unknown, in War and Peace

2017-08-27

tiny.ag/daezmd7g  ·  submitted 1997

A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions.

Wilson Mizner, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2017-08-08

tiny.ag/f4xotdy1  ·  submitted 1997

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it.

Voltaire, in Law and Politics

2017-08-02

tiny.ag/n6uw7frr  ·  submitted 1997

The last time you failed, did you stop trying because you failed -- or did you fail because you stopped trying?

Unknown, in Success and Failure