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 (1850)
2026-05-21
tiny.ag/toiqhdlg · submitted 1997
Anybody who wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
2026-05-20
2026-05-19
tiny.ag/j4ksifbx · submitted 1997
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
2026-05-18
tiny.ag/fyc0iesz · submitted 1997
Be not so bigoted to any custom as to worship it at the expense of Truth.
2026-05-17
tiny.ag/zlwhlbfu · submitted 1997
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
2026-05-16
tiny.ag/jgcbbn8p · submitted 1997
Revenge is sleeping with your enemy's wife. Sweet revenge is the realization that she's a lousy lay.
2026-05-15
tiny.ag/pyo8tp7v · submitted 1997
Every solution breeds new problems.
2026-05-14
tiny.ag/lapwdvsc · submitted 1997
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
2026-05-13
tiny.ag/ut6ks243 · submitted 1997
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
2026-05-12
tiny.ag/o7yghtxb · submitted 1999
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four. If that is granted, all else follows.
George Orwell, 1984, in Happiness and Misery
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