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 (1832)
2025-04-30
tiny.ag/piw4y7md · submitted 1997
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
2025-04-29
tiny.ag/yxe7ui5g · submitted 1997
A nation ... is just a society for hating foreigners.
2025-04-28
tiny.ag/oayda2mh · submitted 1997
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
2025-04-27
tiny.ag/tglvjgxa · submitted 1997
The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
2025-04-26
tiny.ag/nwd35ukj · submitted 1997
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
Jean Paul Richter, in Happiness and Misery and Life and Death
2025-04-25
tiny.ag/6hcujeiu · submitted 1997
Beware the man of one book.
St. Thomas Aquinas, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2025-04-24
tiny.ag/d75fswen · submitted 1998 by William F. Light
Don't let fear stop you.
William F. Light, (to someone threatening to knock him out), in Success and Failure
2025-04-23
tiny.ag/ndscvllq · submitted 1997
Positive anything is better than negative nothing.
2025-04-22
tiny.ag/itutlzy5 · submitted 1997
The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
2025-04-21
tiny.ag/v9nue1vj · submitted 1997
Hearts are often broken when words are unspoken.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
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