Aphorism of the Day

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, in Wisdom and Ignorance

The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...

Dr. Squid, in Altruism and Cynicism and Life and Death

A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

To be matter of fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy -- and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

Robert A. Heinlein, in Life and Death

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Napoleon, in Science and Religion

If you never change your mind, why have one?

Edward De Bono, in Wisdom and Ignorance

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Doug Horton, in Vice and Virtue

Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.

Doug Horton, in Success and Failure

Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance