Aphorism of the Day
This is an archive of every Aphorim of the Day since 2012.
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1–10 (1817)
2024-12-04
tiny.ag/s2pjkz1e · submitted 1997
Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.
Publilius Syrus, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
2024-12-03
tiny.ag/zllwc8ka · submitted 1998
The more debauched one becomes, the more one's fantasies revolve around chastity.
Christopher Spranger, The Effort to Fall, in Vice and Virtue
2024-12-02
tiny.ag/sl9dtwjl · submitted 1997
A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday.
2024-12-01
tiny.ag/lkbki8ft · submitted 1997
For those who fight for it, life has a flavor the sheltered will never know.
2024-11-30
tiny.ag/iy02fnsp · submitted 1997
Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.
2024-11-29
tiny.ag/cybvcjri · submitted 1997
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he is buying.
2024-11-28
tiny.ag/vtq15sgk · submitted 1997
Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.
2024-11-27
tiny.ag/prynfiw1 · submitted 1997
Life is too important to take seriously.
2024-11-26
tiny.ag/jwhevbgo · submitted 1997
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
2024-11-25
tiny.ag/ahogqesm · submitted 1997
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
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