Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1722–1731 (1807)
2012-04-07
tiny.ag/toy71ing · ★★☆☆ Fair (893 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
2012-04-05
tiny.ag/boc0z1r2 · ★★☆☆ Fair (74 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
2012-04-02
tiny.ag/oxjpvl03 · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
2012-03-25
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · ★★☆☆ Fair (1214 ratings) · submitted 1997
Politics is like a race horse. A good jockey must know how to fall with the least possible damage.
Edouard Herriot, (from Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg), in Law and Politics
2012-03-14
tiny.ag/iufy8ewr · ★★☆☆ Fair (739 ratings) · submitted 1999
I should not talk so much about myself were there anybody else whom I knew as well.
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, in Vice and Virtue
2012-03-09
tiny.ag/u1iblda0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (66 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object to realize you are in a hurry.
2012-03-08
tiny.ag/qhoyi5e6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (97 ratings) · submitted 1997
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
2012-02-29
tiny.ag/cxjvq280 · ★★☆☆ Fair (858 ratings) · submitted 1999
Even the the most tempting rose has thorns.
2012-02-18
tiny.ag/1xhfeiwu · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.
2012-02-15
tiny.ag/rdqgrf59 · ★★☆☆ Fair (370 ratings) · submitted 1997
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
1722–1731 (1807)