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 (1854)
2026-08-19
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
2026-08-18
tiny.ag/pw5jxnsv · submitted 1997
A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
2026-08-17
tiny.ag/kov3nzmi · submitted 1997
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
2026-08-16
tiny.ag/exb7lihg · submitted 1997
I've had one child. My husband wants to have another. I'd like to watch him have another.
Unknown, in Men and Women
2026-08-15
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely.
Godfried Bomans, De avonturen van Bill Clifford, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2026-08-14
tiny.ag/dyebwhav · submitted 1999
If we couldn't laugh, we'd all go insane.
2026-08-13
tiny.ag/pxfadpln · submitted 1997
Never give advice -- a wise man won't need it, a fool won't heed it.
2026-08-12
tiny.ag/cybvcjri · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
2026-08-11
tiny.ag/rcehbv9s · submitted 1997
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
2026-08-10
tiny.ag/ljkvotgg · submitted 1997
No vacation goes unpunished.
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