Aphorism of the Day

If you love something, turn it loose. If it doesn't come back, kill it!

Doug Horton, in Altruism and Cynicism and Love and Hate

Don't wait for the last judgment; it takes place every day.

Albert Camus, in Vice and Virtue

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

Oscar Wilde, in Love and Hate

Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Hermione Gingold, in Food and Drink

Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.

Edward A. Murphy, Jr., in Success and Failure

The early bird catches the worm.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion