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)
2026-01-02
tiny.ag/lsjxix1g · submitted 1997
Sloppy thinking only gets worse with decapitation.
2026-01-01
tiny.ag/7guwnmr1 · submitted 1997
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs.
2025-12-31
tiny.ag/qwlroxym · submitted 1997
Parkinson's First Law: Work expands to fill the time available.
2025-12-30
tiny.ag/6wwft1cd · submitted 1997
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
2025-12-29
tiny.ag/kgnv53qx · submitted 1997
Truth comes out of error more easily than out of confusion.
Francis Bacon, in Science and Religion and Success and Failure
2025-12-28
tiny.ag/qk3eo0wc · submitted 1997
The status quo is the only solution that cannot be vetoed.
2025-12-27
tiny.ag/9bumiall · submitted 1997
There's nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
2025-12-26
tiny.ag/u1edofwc · submitted 1997
One nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
2025-12-25
tiny.ag/udhekgkz · submitted 1997
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
2025-12-24
tiny.ag/qsdfeahc · submitted 1997
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him.
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