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Aphorism of the Day

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

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2025-03-17

tiny.ag/2upsgaxe  ·  submitted 1997

The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune.

Unknown, in Wealth and Poverty

2025-03-16

tiny.ag/23goyhuk  ·  submitted 1997

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

William James, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2025-03-15

tiny.ag/nvdb2cfz  ·  submitted 1997

Burning desire is the eternal flame.

Doug Horton, in Love and Hate

2025-03-14

tiny.ag/tmupilkz  ·  submitted 1997

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein, in Vice and Virtue

2025-03-13

tiny.ag/8dojvkdg  ·  submitted 1997

Too much credit is given to the end result. The true lesson is in the struggle that takes place between the dream and reality. That struggle is a thing called life!

Garth Brooks, in Life and Death and Work and Recreation

2025-03-12

tiny.ag/e0ndfjuz  ·  submitted 1997

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

Niccolò Machiavelli

2025-03-11

tiny.ag/fjkyccqy  ·  submitted 1997

In this world, there is one terrible thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

Jean Renoir, in Altruism and Cynicism

2025-03-10

tiny.ag/mnliphwg  ·  submitted 1997

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it.

George Bernard Shaw, in Vice and Virtue

2025-03-09

tiny.ag/uoqbw63r  ·  submitted 1997

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais, in Science and Religion

2025-03-08

tiny.ag/euochyxn  ·  submitted 1997

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

Daniel Schorr, in Altruism and Cynicism and Success and Failure