Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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2024-07-17
tiny.ag/k0emebpg · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 2011 by peter
What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one.
2024-07-16
tiny.ag/trlcjdxx · ★★☆☆ Fair (73 ratings) · submitted 1997
The most valuable and useful of all talents and abilities is that of never using two words or descriptions when one will do or suffice.
2024-07-15
tiny.ag/xxgha1bk · ★★☆☆ Fair (948 ratings) · submitted 1997
Men like to pursue an elusive woman like a cake of wet soap -- even men who hate baths.
2024-07-14
tiny.ag/anqu4m95 · ★★☆☆ Fair (1012 ratings) · submitted 1999 by Erwin van Moll
The heresies we should fear are those which can be confused with orthodoxy.
Jorge Luis Borges, "The Theologians", in Science and Religion
2024-07-13
tiny.ag/aa3jqtel · ★★☆☆ Fair (106 ratings) · submitted 1997
Oliver's Law: Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
2024-07-11
tiny.ag/ncguuawn · ★★☆☆ Fair (225 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never ask the barber if you need a haircut.
2024-07-10
tiny.ag/jmnes1bp · ★★☆☆ Fair (291 ratings) · submitted 1997
The older a man gets, the farther he had to walk to school as a boy.
2024-07-09
tiny.ag/ymbukbew · ★★☆☆ Fair (271 ratings) · submitted 1997
When a man's wife learns to understand him, she usually stops listening to him.
Unknown, in Men and Women
2024-07-08
tiny.ag/cf7uraml · ★★☆☆ Fair (59 ratings) · submitted 1997
Intelligence is nothing without delight.
2024-07-07
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance