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.
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2020-12-03
tiny.ag/oumhmbbr · ★★☆☆ Fair (987 ratings) · submitted 1997
Official Project Stages: (1) Uncritical Acceptance. (2) Wild Enthusiasm. (3) Dejected Disillusionment. (4) Total Confusion. (5) Search for the Guilty. (6) Punishment of the Innocent. (7) Promotion of the Non-participants.
2020-12-02
tiny.ag/eqpdfyuw · ★★☆☆ Fair (865 ratings) · submitted 1997
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
2020-12-01
tiny.ag/o6zxkels · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
2020-11-30
tiny.ag/7do2rifh · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What is Man?, 1906, in Altruism and Cynicism
2020-11-29
tiny.ag/riquczeo · ★★☆☆ Fair (902 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
Isaac Asimov, Foundation, in Vice and Virtue
2020-11-28
tiny.ag/lu0qepci · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
An enemy is anyone who tells the truth about you.
2020-11-27
tiny.ag/nht7uyvu · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
Truth is the cry of all, but the game of the few.
George Berkeley, Siris, 1744
2020-11-26
tiny.ag/eljwsw1t · ★★☆☆ Fair (198 ratings) · submitted 1997
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
2020-11-25
tiny.ag/5hbi0ras · ★★☆☆ Fair (37 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bravery and stupidity go hand in hand.
David Summers, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
2020-11-24
tiny.ag/hwk0yobb · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
All I ask of life is a constant and exaggerated sense of my own importance.
Unknown, in Life and Death and Success and Failure
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