Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1717–1726 (1833)
2015-02-27
tiny.ag/ydvw0j24 · submitted 1997
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
2015-02-23
tiny.ag/gzduntch · submitted 1997
Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Science and Religion
2015-02-21
tiny.ag/o5og0ube · submitted 1997
A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.
2015-02-16
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
2015-02-08
tiny.ag/wsz5lkjo · submitted 1997
Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women; when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it.... While it lies there, it needs no constitution, no law, no court to save it.
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.
1717–1726 (1833)