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 (1789)
2024-05-18
tiny.ag/svgptnqb · ★★☆☆ Fair (75 ratings) · submitted 1997
The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.
2024-05-17
tiny.ag/ry32bjva · ★★☆☆ Fair (823 ratings) · submitted 1997
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller, Catch-22, in War and Peace
2024-05-16
tiny.ag/poggndv0 · ★★☆☆ Fair (2925 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be polite to all, but intimate with few.
2024-05-15
tiny.ag/qnvx9otp · ★★☆☆ Fair (205 ratings) · submitted 1997
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
2024-05-14
tiny.ag/dnnrwvkr · ★★☆☆ Fair (124 ratings) · submitted 1997
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
2024-05-13
tiny.ag/x1quz7jt · ★★☆☆ Fair (56 ratings) · submitted 1997
Millions long for immortality but do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
2024-05-12
tiny.ag/zdvgyvsm · ★★☆☆ Fair (256 ratings) · submitted 1997
Be braver -- you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
2024-05-11
tiny.ag/iobj0muk · ★★☆☆ Fair (476 ratings) · submitted 1997
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.
2024-05-10
tiny.ag/hpw0adig · ★★☆☆ Fair (240 ratings) · submitted 1997
Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings.
2024-05-09
tiny.ag/0rcgdke8 · ★★☆☆ Fair (264 ratings) · submitted 1997
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
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