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Aphorism of the Day

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

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2015-12-20

tiny.ag/ugcdh8oe  ·  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.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

2015-12-06

tiny.ag/fkuqm4vt  ·  submitted 1997

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2015-11-22

tiny.ag/uy8bic2x  ·  submitted 1997

I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.

Oscar Wilde, in Science and Religion

2015-11-17

tiny.ag/fj2gtz79  ·  submitted 1997

Ignorance is the mother of devotion.

Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance

2015-11-14

tiny.ag/mueprtoh  ·  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.

Bertrand Russell, in Science and Religion

2015-11-12

tiny.ag/0elygtgv  ·  submitted 1997

Space (paperback)

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  ·  submitted 1997

For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death

2015-11-05

tiny.ag/s5ttukxb  ·  submitted 1997

A hospital is no place to be sick.

Samuel Goldwyn, in Health and Disease

2015-11-02

tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh  ·  submitted 1997

Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.

Will Rogers, in Success and Failure

2015-10-30

tiny.ag/xmilhqgd  ·  submitted 1997

It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.

Unknown, in War and Peace