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.
1–10 (1842)
2025-12-18
tiny.ag/fznv6alr · submitted 1997
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
2025-12-17
tiny.ag/upvjznor · submitted 1997
I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
2025-12-16
tiny.ag/svgptnqb · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
2025-12-15
tiny.ag/rp6yelnf · submitted 1997
Politics is a rotten egg; if broken, it stinks.
Unknown, (Russian proverb), in Law and Politics
2025-12-14
tiny.ag/satycnrw · submitted 1997
Even the best of friends cannot attend each other's funeral.
2025-12-13
tiny.ag/6vqkumld · submitted 1997
Just because your doctor has a name for your condition doesn't mean he knows what it is.
2025-12-12
tiny.ag/xhlm9fsi · submitted 1997
In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
2025-12-11
tiny.ag/bafxiwkf · submitted 1997
If you treat a person as he is, he will remain as he is. If you treat him for what he could be, he will become what he could be.
2025-12-10
tiny.ag/krs8ezg1 · submitted 1997
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
Charlie McCarthy, in Success and Failure and Work and Recreation
2025-12-09
tiny.ag/kvgolwyi · submitted 1998
The danger today is not so much that machines will learn to think and feel but that men will cease to do so.
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