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Aphorism of the Day

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

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2012-07-26

tiny.ag/nz2qcagl  ·   Fair (16 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Cheer up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate.

Unknown, in Success and Failure

2012-07-25

tiny.ag/airwcz94  ·   Fair (1078 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

A book is a mirror; if an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out.

G. C. Lichtenberg, in Art and Literature and Wisdom and Ignorance

2012-07-19

tiny.ag/6qdfb14w  ·   Fair (231 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke, in Vice and Virtue

2012-07-16

tiny.ag/9exdprka  ·   Fair (134 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.

William Allen White, in Life and Death

2012-07-15

tiny.ag/rb8m34k9  ·   Fair (968 ratings)  ·  submitted 1999

All warfare is based on deception.

Sun Tzu, The Art Of War, in War and Peace

2012-07-05

tiny.ag/ipnqtb0n  ·   Fair (291 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If the effort that went in research on the female bosom had gone into our space program, we would now be running hot dog stands on the moon.

Unknown, in Men and Women

2012-07-04

tiny.ag/74zlcnif  ·   Fair (128 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Don't die until you're dead.

Unknown, in Life and Death

2012-06-11

tiny.ag/26gdqtzf  ·   Fair (149 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.

Unknown, in Wisdom and Ignorance

2012-06-06

tiny.ag/ptfjij1z  ·   Fair (61 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.

W. Somerset Maugham, in Life and Death

2012-06-03

tiny.ag/vz7rfskt  ·   Fair (460 ratings)  ·  submitted 1997

Wine is bottled poetry.

Robert Louis Stevenson, in Food and Drink