Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1776–1785 (1815)
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
2010-12-05
tiny.ag/1txkpoby · submitted 1997
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
2010-11-21
tiny.ag/pjkyl6oi · submitted 1997
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
2010-11-10
tiny.ag/tnwmsadk · submitted 1997
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.
2010-11-03
tiny.ag/1wskdikh · submitted 1997
Plato was a bore.
2010-10-16
tiny.ag/ihlpkath · submitted 1997
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
2010-08-31
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
1776–1785 (1815)