Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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2022-09-26
tiny.ag/tgkornhe · ★★☆☆ Fair (1100 ratings) · submitted 1997
Yield to temptation -- it may not pass your way again.
Robert A. Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (Lazarus Long), in Vice and Virtue
2022-09-25
tiny.ag/rrtq0cbj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1242 ratings) · submitted 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
2022-09-24
tiny.ag/a0oxkbo4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (380 ratings) · submitted 1997
I think, therefore I am.
2022-09-23
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · ★★☆☆ Fair (320 ratings) · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
2022-09-22
tiny.ag/hkxwed3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (92 ratings) · submitted 1997
At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
2022-09-21
tiny.ag/eanvvuth · ★★☆☆ Fair (111 ratings) · submitted 1997
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
2022-09-20
tiny.ag/egbcyknm · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
2022-09-19
tiny.ag/vo8qhfwa · ★★☆☆ Fair (414 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible.
2022-09-18
tiny.ag/icyaq4sy · ★★☆☆ Fair (116 ratings) · submitted 1997
Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.
2022-09-17
tiny.ag/ow0faywn · ★★☆☆ Fair (15 ratings) · submitted 1997
A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already there.
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