Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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2024-04-06
tiny.ag/ovsgddqq · ★★☆☆ Fair (115 ratings) · submitted 1997
Non-Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.
2024-04-05
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
2024-04-04
tiny.ag/dc6pcq9o · ★★☆☆ Fair (425 ratings) · submitted 1997
All men naturally desire knowledge.
2024-04-03
tiny.ag/ls96cqfi · ★★☆☆ Fair (90 ratings) · submitted 1997
A man is in love when something in his head, something in his and chest and something in his pants react to a certain woman.
2024-04-02
tiny.ag/6dhgl4cy · ★★☆☆ Fair (141 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Ian Robinson
An error is not a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
2024-04-01
tiny.ag/wagakfth · ★★☆☆ Fair (945 ratings) · submitted 1999
Learning to shrug is the beginning of wisdom.
Sarah Ban Breathnach, Simple Abundance, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2024-03-31
tiny.ag/yic1pkxi · ★★☆☆ Fair (877 ratings) · submitted 1998
The surest way of severely upsetting yourself for hours is by continuing to consider what concerns you most for a single moment too long.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Happiness and Misery
2024-03-30
tiny.ag/6thfwduq · ★★☆☆ Fair (1009 ratings) · submitted 1999
Romance is built on illusion, and when we love someone, we love the illusion they have created for us.
Roger Ebert, (from review of Boys Don't Cry, Oct. 22, 1999), in Love and Hate
2024-03-29
tiny.ag/h5blv72l · ★★☆☆ Fair (133 ratings) · submitted 1997
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
2024-03-28
tiny.ag/i4m56pqh · ★★☆☆ Fair (89 ratings) · submitted 1997
Goodbye. I am leaving because I am bored.
George Saunders, (dying words), in Life and Death