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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.

2015-05-20

tiny.ag/jlevctud  ·  submitted 1997

Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

2015-05-17

tiny.ag/aoh5h6tb  ·  submitted 1999

Everybody wants to save the earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke, All the Trouble in the World, in Altruism and Cynicism and Work and Recreation

2015-05-16

tiny.ag/mvs5tcpe  ·  submitted 1997

Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.

Unknown, in Happiness and Misery

2015-05-12

tiny.ag/qy4zssfi  ·  submitted 1997

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Theodore Roosevelt, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2015-05-03

tiny.ag/e9i2oof8  ·  submitted 1997

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

2015-05-02

tiny.ag/4gnwlaf8  ·  submitted 1997

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them.

Alexandre Dumas, in Men and Women

2015-04-28

tiny.ag/oxnkf52j  ·  submitted 1997

All probabilities are 50%. Either a thing will happen or it won't.

Unknown, in Science and Religion

2015-04-25

tiny.ag/auqhpii7  ·  submitted 1997

A person who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal.

Unknown, in Law and Politics

2015-04-23

tiny.ag/cwprmiyl  ·  submitted 1997

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error.

Weisert, in Success and Failure

2015-04-15

tiny.ag/vpdlcnc4  ·  submitted 1997

Nothing ventured, nothing gained -- but if everything is ventured, and still nothing gained, give up and venture elsewhere.

Peter Wastholm, in Success and Failure