Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1735–1744 (1833)
2014-05-30
tiny.ag/is8fdtaa · submitted 1999
Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.
2014-05-12
tiny.ag/gpnuvt0q · submitted 1997
You cannot achieve the impossible without attempting the absurd.
2014-05-07
tiny.ag/sbtlzeuy · submitted 1997
Life is like a raffle -- you must be present to win.
2014-04-27
tiny.ag/4ru9egbz · submitted 1997
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
2014-04-13
tiny.ag/p2zj718l · submitted 1997
The only absolute knowledge worth attaining is that your life is meaningless. -- My life? Well now, that's another story...
2014-04-01
tiny.ag/i9vof3d6 · submitted 1997
A budget is just a method of worrying before you spend money, as well as afterward.
2014-03-30
tiny.ag/c4bqu3ci · submitted 1997
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.
2012-08-17
tiny.ag/f4ckcyx8 · submitted 1997
If you never change your mind, why have one?
2012-07-30
tiny.ag/kjm5ugma · submitted 1997
Change occurs in direct proportion to dissatisfaction, but dissatisfaction never changes.
2012-07-25
tiny.ag/airwcz94 · submitted 1997
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
1735–1744 (1833)