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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

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2011-10-19

tiny.ag/4awpxubp  ·  submitted 1997

Every nation ridicules other nations -- and all are right.

Arthur Schopenhauer, in Law and Politics

2011-09-14

tiny.ag/ogrqyeb7  ·  submitted 1997

Let your heart guide you. It whispers, so listen closely.

Unknown, in Vice and Virtue

2011-09-10

tiny.ag/gzoelgpa  ·  submitted 1997

Men mistake friendship, but not sex, for love; women mistake sex, but not friendship, for love.

Peter Wastholm, in Men and Women

2011-08-24

tiny.ag/kzothtfn  ·  submitted 1997

For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.

Bob Wells, in Law and Politics

2011-08-23

tiny.ag/4vfcycxe  ·  submitted 1997

Hatred is toxic waste in the river of life.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

2011-08-17

tiny.ag/cstcsf2k  ·  submitted 1997

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Oscar Wilde, in Love and Hate

2011-08-15

tiny.ag/5fjxbdkr  ·  submitted 1997

A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

Unknown, in Work and Recreation

2011-08-09

tiny.ag/epdarexm  ·  submitted 1999 by Jim Mueller

I wish I were what I was when I wanted to be what I am now.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

2011-08-07

tiny.ag/6kh8ljvj  ·  submitted 1997

Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

Ambrose Bierce, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2011-08-03

tiny.ag/cercjjq0  ·  submitted 1997

Love your enemies: they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to.

Unknown, in Altruism and Cynicism