Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
Every single day, a very sophisticated computer running state of the art software carefully picks an aphorism from the collection and sends it out to all the nice people who have subscribed to the Aphorism of the Day. If you want to be one of these nice people, create a user profile and start a subscription.
1–10 (1844)
2026-02-19
tiny.ag/hcogkx8m · submitted 1997
Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.
2026-02-18
tiny.ag/hsueg1lg · submitted 1997
Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.
2026-02-17
tiny.ag/xhg05ovb · submitted 1997
I never know how much of what I say is true.
2026-02-16
tiny.ag/c47emtsn · submitted 1997
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
2026-02-15
tiny.ag/0rczsoyu · submitted 1997
What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.
2026-02-14
tiny.ag/8kw5laiw · submitted 1997
You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.
2026-02-13
tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk · submitted 1997
You can observe a lot by watching.
2026-02-12
tiny.ag/ass2ou8g · submitted 1997
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
2026-02-11
tiny.ag/lhbjvuc3 · submitted 1997
He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill, but he will do few things.
2026-02-10
tiny.ag/cz2awrgd · submitted 1997
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
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