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 (1680)
2021-09-17
tiny.ag/nf5uvtlk · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
2021-09-16
tiny.ag/lem4yqnc · ★★☆☆ Fair (226 ratings) · submitted 1997
One does not make friends, one recognizes them.
Unknown, in Love and Hate
2021-09-15
tiny.ag/wjvn8okc · ★★☆☆ Fair (186 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me a museum and I'll fill it.
2021-09-14
tiny.ag/kfcphxpx · ★★☆☆ Fair (57 ratings) · submitted 1997
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
2021-09-13
tiny.ag/otl52twf · ★★☆☆ Fair (656 ratings) · submitted 1997 by James Menzies
The masses have little time to think. And how incredible is the willingness of modern man to believe.
Benito Mussolini, in Law and Politics and Wisdom and Ignorance
2021-09-12
tiny.ag/7do2rifh · ★★☆☆ Fair (140 ratings) · submitted 1997
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
Mark Twain, What is Man?, 1906, in Altruism and Cynicism
2021-09-11
tiny.ag/mrm8ujlt · ★★☆☆ Fair (870 ratings) · submitted 1998 by Marc Spierings
Knowledge and belief are two separate tracks that run parallel to each other and never meet, except in the child.
Godfried Bomans, Buitelingen II, in Science and Religion and Wisdom and Ignorance
2021-09-10
tiny.ag/nolhz29r · ★★☆☆ Fair (126 ratings) · submitted 1998
Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.
2021-09-09
tiny.ag/hjgpjdl6 · ★★☆☆ Fair (39 ratings) · submitted 1997
A bend in the road is not the end of the road -- unless you fail to make the turn.
2021-09-08
tiny.ag/hoklinq4 · ★★☆☆ Fair (447 ratings) · submitted 1997
Middle age is youth without levity. And old age without decay.
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