Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1669–1678 (1833)
2015-11-22
tiny.ag/uy8bic2x · submitted 1997
I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
2015-11-17
tiny.ag/fj2gtz79 · submitted 1997
Ignorance is the mother of devotion.
Robert Burton, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-11-12
tiny.ag/0elygtgv · 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
2015-11-05
tiny.ag/s5ttukxb · submitted 1997
A hospital is no place to be sick.
2015-11-02
tiny.ag/mzqjkhnh · submitted 1997
Why not go out on a limb? That's where the fruit is.
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
2015-10-24
tiny.ag/kje1nil8 · submitted 1997
Grub first, then ethics.
2015-10-15
tiny.ag/izntlcnj · submitted 1997
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
2015-10-06
tiny.ag/zuhrgxko · submitted 1997
A large, clumsy umbrella is the best protection against the rain: there will be no rain as long as you're lugging it around.
2015-10-02
tiny.ag/l2qkzwis · submitted 1997
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on Albert Einstein), in Wisdom and Ignorance
1669–1678 (1833)