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Aphorism of the Day

This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.

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2010-10-16

tiny.ag/ihlpkath  ·  submitted 1997

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon, in Law and Politics

2010-08-05

tiny.ag/gam5ctee  ·  submitted 1997

If it weren't for lawyers, we wouldn't need them.

A. K. Griffin, in Law and Politics

2010-07-14

tiny.ag/d1etleqn  ·  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.

Austin Holmes, in Happiness and Misery

2010-05-26

tiny.ag/xw6wlcfo  ·  submitted 1997

Life's a bitch, and life's got lots of sisters.

Ross Presser, in Life and Death and Success and Failure

2010-04-17

tiny.ag/w06shyav  ·  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.

Henry M. Robert, in Law and Politics

2010-04-02

tiny.ag/lkgjcwse  ·  submitted 1997

Baloney is flattery so thick that it can not be true and blarney is flattery so thin that we like it.

Fulton J. Sheen, in Altruism and Cynicism

2010-01-28

tiny.ag/o4tugiae  ·  submitted 1997

While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

2010-01-21

tiny.ag/lsxp5q2w  ·  submitted 1997

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment.

Robert Benchley, in Work and Recreation

2010-01-10

tiny.ag/ypqqlw9y  ·  submitted 1998

Always remember your weapons system was made by the lowest bidder

Unknown, in War and Peace

2010-01-08

tiny.ag/kwzypjqf  ·  submitted 1997

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

Aristotle, in Work and Recreation