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.
2025-10-15
tiny.ag/4hqstejw · submitted 1997
A fool must now and then be right by chance.
William Cowper, Conversation, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2025-10-14
tiny.ag/nuplbfta · submitted 1997
The economy depends about as much on economists as the weather does on weather forecasters.
Jean-Paul Kauffmann, in Science and Religion and Wealth and Poverty
2025-10-13
tiny.ag/mqycsaej · submitted 1999
The greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.
2025-10-12
tiny.ag/jpox64sd · submitted 1997
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.
Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2025-10-11
tiny.ag/rv5rwqlp · submitted 1998
"Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, in Wisdom and Ignorance
2025-10-10
tiny.ag/iobj0muk · submitted 1997
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
2025-10-09
tiny.ag/np9dvtka · submitted 1997
Ninety percent of everything is crap.
2025-10-08
tiny.ag/sulaqprm · submitted 1997
Marriage is not a word -- it is a sentence.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
2025-10-07
tiny.ag/wultb9vd · submitted 1997
Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
2025-10-06
tiny.ag/qhqk8egu · submitted 1997
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.