Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1731–1740 (1765)
2010-09-26
tiny.ag/qol2sxws · ★★☆☆ Fair (53 ratings) · submitted 1997
The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein -- it rejects it.
2010-08-31
tiny.ag/dyq1q946 · ★★☆☆ Fair (123 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
2010-08-05
tiny.ag/gam5ctee · ★★☆☆ Fair (58 ratings) · submitted 1997
If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.
2010-07-31
tiny.ag/f70nm4cm · ★★☆☆ Fair (868 ratings) · submitted 1999
All I desire for my own burial is not to be buried alive.
2010-07-14
tiny.ag/d1etleqn · ★★☆☆ Fair (843 ratings) · submitted 1999
It is not the bad times on which we should dwell, it is only poison to the mind and soul. We shall rise up after we fall, and continue to go on -- dwelling on the good, high-spirited times of our lives.
2010-06-27
tiny.ag/ihluxzog · ★★☆☆ Fair (262 ratings) · submitted 1997
Quigley's Law: Whoever has any authority over you, no matter how small, will attempt to use it.
2010-06-20
tiny.ag/kzayik2y · ★★☆☆ Fair (47 ratings) · submitted 1997
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
2010-05-26
tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo · ★★☆☆ Fair (70 ratings) · submitted 1997
Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.
2010-05-18
tiny.ag/yvhq4tf0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (71 ratings) · submitted 1997
The essence of true friendship is to make allowances for another's little lapses.
2010-04-17
tiny.ag/w06shyav · ★★☆☆ Fair (79 ratings) · submitted 1997
Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty.
1731–1740 (1765)