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 (1704)
2022-05-24
tiny.ag/shpmv1fs · ★★☆☆ Fair (323 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn't correct it, is committing another mistake.
2022-05-23
tiny.ag/lakz6spw · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
2022-05-22
tiny.ag/oy08nxhf · ★★☆☆ Fair (853 ratings) · 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
2022-05-21
tiny.ag/kiytmq1q · ★★☆☆ Fair (1036 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities that I have visited, all my ancestors... Perhaps I would have liked to be my father, who wrote but has the decency of not publishing.
2022-05-20
tiny.ag/gmwn1b4c · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Until you value yourself, you will not value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.
2022-05-19
tiny.ag/wtukmszr · ★★☆☆ Fair (1186 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
2022-05-18
tiny.ag/ynhvcg3k · ★★☆☆ Fair (201 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left.
2022-05-17
tiny.ag/ac57f8tj · ★★☆☆ Fair (1168 ratings) · submitted 1997
In this world, nothing is certain but death and taxes.
2022-05-16
tiny.ag/ahfxksue · ★★☆☆ Fair (331 ratings) · submitted 1997
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
2022-05-15
tiny.ag/v6ukdwhs · ★★☆☆ Fair (874 ratings) · submitted 1997
A woman, especially if she has the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
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