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.
1690–1699 (1815)
2015-02-07
tiny.ag/sdc7t2fc · submitted 1997
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it.
2015-02-04
tiny.ag/yif1p5kz · submitted 1999
The early bird catches the worm.
2014-11-23
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
2014-11-18
tiny.ag/wb5d0s4b · submitted 1997
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
2014-11-17
tiny.ag/9yutw8at · submitted 1997
It does not take much strength to do things, but it takes great strength to know what to do.
2014-10-23
tiny.ag/k0lhuitd · submitted 1997
Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Search for meaning, eat, sleep. Die, search for meaning, search for meaning, search for meaning.
2014-09-19
tiny.ag/t9fdfjzr · submitted 1997
Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.
2014-09-11
tiny.ag/hdyoy0ri · submitted 1999 by Chris Daniels
I have seen war. I have seen war on land and sea. I have seen blood running from the wounded... I have seen the dead in the mud. I have seen cities destroyed... I have seen children starving. I have seen the agony of mothers and wives. I hate war.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (Chautauqua, New York, August 14, 1936), in War and Peace
2014-09-08
tiny.ag/vdjyoa1u · submitted 1997
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.
2014-06-29
tiny.ag/cfxqwrve · submitted 1997
It's not a question of happiness, it's a requirement. Consider the alternative.
1690–1699 (1815)