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Aphorism of the Day

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

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2009-11-26

tiny.ag/v9nue1vj  ·  submitted 1997

Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken.

Unknown, in Love and Hate

2009-11-25

tiny.ag/4uvnidhy  ·  submitted 1997

Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Blaise Pascal, in Vice and Virtue

2009-11-07

tiny.ag/ipa5yree  ·  submitted 1997

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John A. Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), in Wisdom and Ignorance

2009-10-21

tiny.ag/8dhiywlp  ·  submitted 1997

I am not young enough to know everything.

Oscar Wilde, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2009-10-03

tiny.ag/cuh1ej24  ·  submitted 1997

He who does not prefer exile to slavery is not free by any measure of freedom, truth and duty.

Kahlil Gibran, in Law and Politics

2009-10-01

tiny.ag/ymof9a0l  ·  submitted 1997

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?

Art Hoppe, in Science and Religion

2009-09-22

tiny.ag/bueg0ydy  ·  submitted 1999 by S. Gilmary Beagle

The dead and the stupid never change their opinions.

S. Gilmary Beagle, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2009-08-25

tiny.ag/woh9u2ra  ·  submitted 1997

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

Alan Kay, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation