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.
1612–1621 (1807)
2016-01-10
tiny.ag/pyitdvns · ★★☆☆ Fair (288 ratings) · submitted 1997
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
2016-01-09
tiny.ag/zpdgt5p3 · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
2015-12-31
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · ★★☆☆ Fair (1020 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
2015-12-20
tiny.ag/ugcdh8oe · ★★☆☆ Fair (217 ratings) · submitted 1997
You may only have two of the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of money.
2015-12-06
tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt · ★★☆☆ Fair (88 ratings) · submitted 1997
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
2015-11-22
tiny.ag/uy8bic2x · ★★☆☆ Fair (485 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
2015-11-17
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · ★★☆☆ Fair (223 ratings) · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-11-14
tiny.ag/mueprtoh · ★★☆☆ Fair (112 ratings) · submitted 1997
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as to seem not worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
2015-11-12
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.
James Michener, Space, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-11-06
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · ★★☆☆ Fair (305 ratings) · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
1612–1621 (1807)