Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1752–1761 (1833)
2012-05-21
tiny.ag/gvfo9jw1 · submitted 1997
Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
2012-05-13
tiny.ag/odgzoipj · submitted 1997
Boob's Law: You always find something in the last place you look.
2012-05-11
tiny.ag/asecpbyl · submitted 1997
A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern.
2012-04-30
tiny.ag/con6lmc2 · submitted 1997
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
2012-04-10
tiny.ag/vaj63mlc · submitted 1997
The basis of optimism is sheer terror.
2012-04-07
tiny.ag/toy71ing · 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 · submitted 1997
If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
2012-04-02
tiny.ag/oxjpvl03 · submitted 1997
Some people dream of success, while others wake up and work hard at it.
2012-03-25
tiny.ag/lctsfa7d · 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 · 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
1752–1761 (1833)