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.
1659–1668 (1833)
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.
2016-01-24
tiny.ag/hmdnaus7 · submitted 1997
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
2016-01-10
tiny.ag/pyitdvns · submitted 1997
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
2016-01-09
tiny.ag/zpdgt5p3 · submitted 1997
The secret to life is that there is no secret.
2015-12-31
tiny.ag/wmcjiaqo · submitted 1999
Learn from the past. Look to the future. Live in the present.
1659–1668 (1833)