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.
1552–1561 (1808)
2016-10-08
tiny.ag/h8gckidt · ★★☆☆ Fair (82 ratings) · submitted 1997
Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
2016-10-07
tiny.ag/shbtdjjo · ★★☆☆ Fair (230 ratings) · submitted 1997
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.
2016-10-06
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · ★★☆☆ Fair (164 ratings) · submitted 1998
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2016-10-05
tiny.ag/rcl3mcj0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (878 ratings) · submitted 1997
If the wolf had ever come to our back door, he'd have had to bring a picnic lunch.
Bill Anderson, (from the song "Poor Folks"), in Wealth and Poverty
2016-10-03
tiny.ag/nqpwl3vp · ★★☆☆ Fair (462 ratings) · submitted 1997
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
2016-09-23
tiny.ag/6dwsjbik · ★★☆☆ Fair (907 ratings) · submitted 1998 by VWTransit
If you love God, burn the church.
2016-09-21
tiny.ag/o9rrnhjx · ★★☆☆ Fair (16 ratings) · submitted 1997
Anthony's Law of the Workshop: Any tool, when dropped, will roll into the least accessible corner of the workshop.
2016-09-17
tiny.ag/i5nn9q12 · ★★☆☆ Fair (393 ratings) · submitted 1997
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of.
2016-09-13
tiny.ag/2guiksyw · ★★☆☆ Fair (136 ratings) · submitted 1997
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
2016-09-08
tiny.ag/0arre1jp · ★★☆☆ Fair (251 ratings) · submitted 1997
People who have no faults are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
1552–1561 (1808)