Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1–10 (1839)
2025-10-23
tiny.ag/crui0h1u · submitted 1997
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself -- nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, (inaugural speech, 1944), in War and Peace
2025-10-22
tiny.ag/5edntuvq · submitted 1997
If I can be of any help, you're in worse trouble than I thought.
2025-10-21
tiny.ag/hf615shl · submitted 1997
On the whole, human beings want to be good -- but not too good and not quite all the time.
2025-10-20
tiny.ag/l3yahg9k · submitted 1997
Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.
Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary, in Health and Disease and Life and Death
2025-10-19
tiny.ag/q2py4esl · submitted 1997
Let us so live that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain, in Life and Death and Vice and Virtue
2025-10-18
tiny.ag/63vctqjk · submitted 1997
Thinking is the soul talking to itself.
2025-10-17
tiny.ag/orx9er1h · submitted 1997
The wind and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
2025-10-16
tiny.ag/ygktzxcq · submitted 1997
Children are natural mimics who act like their parents despite every effort to teach them good manners.
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
1–10 (1839)