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Aphorism of the Day

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

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2026-02-19

tiny.ag/hcogkx8m  ·  submitted 1997

Death is God's way of telling you not to be such a wise guy.

Unknown, in Life and Death

2026-02-18

tiny.ag/hsueg1lg  ·  submitted 1997

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.

Aldous Huxley, in Life and Death

2026-02-17

tiny.ag/xhg05ovb  ·  submitted 1997

I never know how much of what I say is true.

Bette Midler, in Altruism and Cynicism

2026-02-16

tiny.ag/c47emtsn  ·  submitted 1997

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana, in Science and Religion

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.

Herbert Simon, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2026-02-14

tiny.ag/8kw5laiw  ·  submitted 1997

You draw nothing out of the bank of life except what you deposit in it.

Unknown, in Life and Death

2026-02-13

tiny.ag/ypvm5zmk  ·  submitted 1997

You can observe a lot by watching.

Yogi Berra, in Wisdom and Ignorance

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.

George Bernard Shaw, in Success and Failure

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.

Lord Halifax, in Vice and Virtue

2026-02-10

tiny.ag/cz2awrgd  ·  submitted 1997

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Frank Lloyd Wright, in Wealth and Poverty