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.
1681–1690 (1833)
2015-10-01
tiny.ag/inomue9p · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.
Jorge Luis Borges, "Pierre Menard, Author of Don Quixote", in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-09-26
tiny.ag/id0fuogm · submitted 1997
Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence.
Unknown, (Chinese proverb), in Love and Hate
2015-09-21
tiny.ag/pl60skge · submitted 1997
Hope is nature's veil for hiding truth's nakedness.
2015-09-11
tiny.ag/ol561nt2 · submitted 1997
Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
2015-09-06
tiny.ag/t6cxlzxo · submitted 1997
It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, that gives happiness.
Thomas Jefferson, in Wealth and Poverty and Work and Recreation
2015-08-30
tiny.ag/fwsgb93v · submitted 1997
If it weren't for caffeine I'd have no personality whatsoever.
2015-08-23
tiny.ag/veiyrnvp · submitted 1997
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant, Brilliant Thoughts (copyright info: www.ashleighbrilliant.com), in Work and Recreation
2015-08-18
tiny.ag/i7frfq3v · submitted 1997
Heed not my earthly lot, for it hath little of earth in it.
2015-08-16
tiny.ag/iyraxvda · submitted 1997
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
2015-08-14
tiny.ag/bjyoe8up · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
1681–1690 (1833)