Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1770–1779 (1815)
2011-03-14
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
2011-02-24
tiny.ag/zsldl2jb · submitted 1997
When you've seen one nuclear war, you've seen them all.
Unknown, in War and Peace
2011-02-18
tiny.ag/jcg8ibwt · submitted 1997
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
2011-02-17
tiny.ag/zckhxjq9 · submitted 1997
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behaviour is our only hope for a pardon.
2011-01-22
tiny.ag/imy14xh7 · submitted 1997
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.
2011-01-17
tiny.ag/8nji6wzs · submitted 1997
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
2011-01-07
tiny.ag/u4ywocdm · submitted 1997
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
2010-12-16
tiny.ag/pcufmsbg · submitted 1997
Nothing recedes like success.
2010-12-12
tiny.ag/a7h1xcrn · submitted 1997
Before you find your handsome prince, you have to kiss a lot of frogs.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
2010-12-06
tiny.ag/wqaxitgv · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim", in Art and Literature
1770–1779 (1815)