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.
1611–1620 (1789)
2015-08-16
tiny.ag/iyraxvda · ★★☆☆ Fair (365 ratings) · submitted 1997
Advertising is 85% confusion and 15% commision.
2015-08-14
tiny.ag/bjyoe8up · ★★☆☆ Fair (275 ratings) · submitted 1997
Liberty is the right to choose. Freedom is the result of the right choice.
2015-08-11
tiny.ag/fkz5efpm · ★★☆☆ Fair (167 ratings) · submitted 1997
I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.
2015-08-10
tiny.ag/qdviuayz · ★★☆☆ Fair (93 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
Euripides, Orestia, in Life and Death
2015-08-08
tiny.ag/s3vd0gnl · ★★☆☆ Fair (715 ratings) · submitted 1997
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince, 1532, in Work and Recreation
2015-08-05
tiny.ag/pazvp4tb · ★★☆☆ Fair (104 ratings) · submitted 1997
If someone had told me I would be pope one day, I would have studied harder.
Pope John Paul I, in Success and Failure and Wisdom and Ignorance
2015-07-20
tiny.ag/iv0n7jxr · ★★☆☆ Fair (468 ratings) · submitted 1997
If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go.
2015-07-18
tiny.ag/ugvde1cx · ★★☆☆ Fair (204 ratings) · submitted 1997
If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?
2015-07-16
tiny.ag/gesq5cpw · ★★☆☆ Fair (357 ratings) · submitted 1997
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.
2015-07-09
tiny.ag/ne1vhxlr · ★★☆☆ Fair (119 ratings) · submitted 1997
Never tell the truth to those unworthy of it.
1611–1620 (1789)