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.
1655–1664 (1833)
2016-03-29
tiny.ag/st9mqgf5 · submitted 1997
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
2016-03-15
tiny.ag/ljsjuhkx · submitted 1997
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
2016-02-26
tiny.ag/mb7skahf · submitted 1997
It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed.
2016-02-24
tiny.ag/flwibuot · submitted 1997
Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government.
2016-02-22
tiny.ag/cya9lpyt · submitted 1997
He who thinks he is raising a mound may only in reality be digging a pit.
2016-02-20
tiny.ag/iulae0a9 · submitted 1997
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
John A. Locke, sometimes incorrectly attributed to John Locke, in Science and Religion
2016-02-06
tiny.ag/5fmenyag · submitted 1997
The gods gave man fire and he invented fire engines. They gave him love and he invented marriage.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
2016-02-03
tiny.ag/lapwdvsc · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
2016-01-31
tiny.ag/ls0zmykb · submitted 1997 by Mark Dawson
However hot the water is, the fire still goes out.
2016-01-25
tiny.ag/q7oo4vdf · submitted 1997
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
1655–1664 (1833)