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 (1741)
2023-02-08
tiny.ag/ecgyv8jm · ★★☆☆ Fair (33 ratings) · submitted 1997
To deny we need and want power is to deny that we hope to be effective.
2023-02-07
tiny.ag/ajoczguy · ★★☆☆ Fair (351 ratings) · submitted 1997
Usually, if you're calling any shots at all, you're not eating worms.
Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes (the Susie Derkins character), in Success and Failure
2023-02-06
tiny.ag/rjjl9rkn · ★★☆☆ Fair (208 ratings) · submitted 1997
Kinky is using a feather, perverted is using the whole chicken.
2023-02-05
tiny.ag/sectwkrh · ★★☆☆ Fair (101 ratings) · submitted 1997
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
2023-02-04
tiny.ag/xjrw4zcp · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
While anyone can admit to themselves they were wrong, the true test is admission to someone else.
2023-02-03
tiny.ag/4rgim10d · ★★☆☆ Fair (154 ratings) · submitted 1997
A single fact can spoil a good argument.
2023-02-02
tiny.ag/9kdycunx · ★★☆☆ Fair (1386 ratings) · submitted 1997
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve.
Robert Frost, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
2023-02-01
tiny.ag/hh0kfr5w · ★★☆☆ Fair (415 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
2023-01-31
tiny.ag/ahwnboyz · ★★☆☆ Fair (254 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman never forgets the men she could have had; a man, the women he couldn't.
Unknown, in Men and Women
2023-01-30
tiny.ag/hxz4udr0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (171 ratings) · submitted 1997
All the passions make us commit faults; love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.
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