Quote of the Day archive
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November 2026
- We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine…Tue, Nov 10 · Henry David Thoreau
- I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair…Wed, Nov 11 · Robert Louis Stevenson
- …the unexamined life is not worth livingThu, Nov 12 · Socrates
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.Fri, Nov 13 · James Madison
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Sat, Nov 14 · Oscar Wilde
- Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.Sun, Nov 15 · Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Though she be but little, she is fierce.Mon, Nov 16 · William Shakespeare
- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."Tue, Nov 17 · Edgar Allan Poe
- Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.Wed, Nov 18 · Theodore Roosevelt
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but…Thu, Nov 19 · Mark Twain
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they…Fri, Nov 20 · Henry David Thoreau
- Advice, n. The smallest current coin.Sat, Nov 21 · Ambrose Bierce
- Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to noneSun, Nov 22 · William Shakespeare
- Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The…Mon, Nov 23 · Christina Rossetti
- Little Strokes, Fell great Oaks.Tue, Nov 24 · Benjamin Franklin
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.Wed, Nov 25 · Abraham Lincoln
- It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a…Thu, Nov 26 · Florence Nightingale
- Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Fri, Nov 27 · Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.Sat, Nov 28 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and…Sun, Nov 29 · Francis Bacon
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not…Mon, Nov 30 · Oscar Wilde
December 2026
- …the proof of the pudding is the eatingTue, Dec 1 · Miguel de Cervantes
- I celebrate myself, and sing myselfWed, Dec 2 · Walt Whitman
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.Thu, Dec 3 · Mark Twain
- …the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfFri, Dec 4 · Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.Sat, Dec 5 · Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A thing of beauty is a joy for everSun, Dec 6 · John Keats
- To err is human, to forgive divine.Mon, Dec 7 · Alexander Pope
- These are the times that try men's souls.Tue, Dec 8 · Thomas Paine
- Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of natureWed, Dec 9 · Michael Faraday
- We are such stuff As dreams are made onThu, Dec 10 · William Shakespeare
- Time makes more converts than reason.Fri, Dec 11 · Thomas Paine
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.Sat, Dec 12 · Mark Twain
- The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and…Sun, Dec 13 · Lewis Carroll
- God's in his heaven— All's right with the world!Mon, Dec 14 · Robert Browning
- No man is an island, entire of itselfTue, Dec 15 · John Donne
- O brave new world, That has such people in't!Wed, Dec 16 · William Shakespeare
- It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.Thu, Dec 17 · Wilbur Wright
- Facts are stubborn thingsFri, Dec 18 · John Adams
- Put all your eggs in the one basket and—WATCH THAT BASKET.Sat, Dec 19 · Mark Twain
- I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.Sun, Dec 20 · Louisa May Alcott
- A little learning is a dang'rous thingMon, Dec 21 · Alexander Pope
- Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.Tue, Dec 22 · Mark Twain
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Wed, Dec 23 · Alexander Pope
- I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.Thu, Dec 24 · Charles Dickens
- God bless Us, Every One!Fri, Dec 25 · Charles Dickens
- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine;…Sat, Dec 26 · Thomas Jefferson
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.Sun, Dec 27 · John Muir
- Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual…Mon, Dec 28 · Ambrose Bierce
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and…Tue, Dec 29 · Henry David Thoreau
- "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."Wed, Dec 30 · Arthur Conan Doyle
- …when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know…Thu, Dec 31 · Lord Kelvin
January 2027
- While we are postponing, life speeds by.Fri, Jan 1 · Seneca the Younger
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little mindsSat, Jan 2 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweetSun, Jan 3 · William Shakespeare
- What are men to rocks and mountains?Mon, Jan 4 · Jane Austen
- In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.Tue, Jan 5 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- …whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of…Wed, Jan 6 · Jonathan Swift
- We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they…Thu, Jan 7 · John F. Kennedy
- Lost time is never found again.Fri, Jan 8 · Benjamin Franklin
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingersSat, Jan 9 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Man is a Tool-using AnimalSun, Jan 10 · Thomas Carlyle
- The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our…Mon, Jan 11 · William Wordsworth
- Earth laughs in flowersTue, Jan 12 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer…Wed, Jan 13 · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.Thu, Jan 14 · Plutarch
- Remember that time is money.Fri, Jan 15 · Benjamin Franklin
- …a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.Sat, Jan 16 · Washington Irving
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.Sun, Jan 17 · Benjamin Franklin
- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth…Mon, Jan 18 · Theodore Roosevelt
- Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.Tue, Jan 19 · Horace
- In Wildness is the preservation of the World.Wed, Jan 20 · Henry David Thoreau
- The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.Thu, Jan 21 · John Milton
- October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The…Fri, Jan 22 · Mark Twain
- All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.Sat, Jan 23 · Edgar Allan Poe
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep aloneSun, Jan 24 · Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- I cannot live without booksMon, Jan 25 · Thomas Jefferson
- …to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arriveTue, Jan 26 · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agleyWed, Jan 27 · Robert Burns
- Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.Thu, Jan 28 · Helen Keller
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet…Fri, Jan 29 · Henry David Thoreau
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.Sat, Jan 30 · William Blake
- …sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.Sun, Jan 31 · Lewis Carroll
February 2027
- Beware of all enterprises that require new clothesMon, Feb 1 · Henry David Thoreau
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortuneTue, Feb 2 · William Shakespeare
- Necessity never made a good bargain.Wed, Feb 3 · Benjamin Franklin
- If there is no struggle there is no progress.Thu, Feb 4 · Frederick Douglass
- …form ever follows functionFri, Feb 5 · Louis Sullivan
- Call me Ishmael.Sat, Feb 6 · Herman Melville
- Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.Sun, Feb 7 · Oscar Wilde
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.Mon, Feb 8 · William Shakespeare
- Life is short, and Art longTue, Feb 9 · Hippocrates
- The planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.Wed, Feb 10 · Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious…Thu, Feb 11 · Henry David Thoreau
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new…Fri, Feb 12 · Abraham Lincoln
- The mountains are calling & I must goSat, Feb 13 · John Muir
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we…Sun, Feb 14 · Adam Smith
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve…Mon, Feb 15 · Benjamin Franklin
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes…Tue, Feb 16 · Leonardo da Vinci
- I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.Wed, Feb 17 · Susan B. Anthony
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.Thu, Feb 18 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must…Fri, Feb 19 · Theodore Roosevelt
- "Hope" is the thing with feathersSat, Feb 20 · Emily Dickinson
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.Sun, Feb 21 · Benjamin Franklin
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.Mon, Feb 22 · George Washington
- …neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift…Tue, Feb 23 · Herodotus
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Wed, Feb 24 · Mark Twain
- Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain…Thu, Feb 25 · Walt Whitman
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.Fri, Feb 26 · William Shakespeare
- …when a man is tired of London, he is tired of lifeSat, Feb 27 · Samuel Johnson
- God helps them that help themselves.Sun, Feb 28 · Benjamin Franklin
March 2027
- Please, sir, I want some more.Mon, Mar 1 · Charles Dickens
- Eat to live, and not live to eat.Tue, Mar 2 · Benjamin Franklin
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.Wed, Mar 3 · Francis Bacon
- He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.Thu, Mar 4 · Benjamin Franklin
- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirsFri, Mar 5 · Rudyard Kipling
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Sat, Mar 6 · Oscar Wilde
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Sun, Mar 7 · Arthur Conan Doyle
- Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.Mon, Mar 8 · Benjamin Franklin
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Tue, Mar 9 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.Wed, Mar 10 · Alexander Graham Bell
- Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.Thu, Mar 11 · Benjamin Franklin
- Brevity is the soul of witFri, Mar 12 · William Shakespeare
- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result…Sat, Mar 13 · Charles Dickens
- …when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Sun, Mar 14 · Samuel Johnson
- He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbersMon, Mar 15 · Jonathan Swift
- Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.Tue, Mar 16 · William Wordsworth
- If music be the food of love, play onWed, Mar 17 · William Shakespeare
- Every artist was first an amateur.Thu, Mar 18 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Fri, Mar 19 · Oscar Wilde
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Sat, Mar 20 · Isaac Newton
- Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.Sun, Mar 21 · William Shakespeare
- Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all productionMon, Mar 22 · Adam Smith
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.Tue, Mar 23 · Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?Wed, Mar 24 · Robert Browning
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.Thu, Mar 25 · Thomas Carlyle
- I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it…Fri, Mar 26 · Blaise Pascal
- Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passingSat, Mar 27 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- I think, therefore I am.Sun, Mar 28 · René Descartes
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.Mon, Mar 29 · George Santayana
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.Tue, Mar 30 · Thomas Edison
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Wed, Mar 31 · Mark Twain
April 2027
- I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Thu, Apr 1 · Johannes Kepler
- If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?Fri, Apr 2 · Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Child is father of the ManSat, Apr 3 · William Wordsworth
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good…Sun, Apr 4 · Jane Austen
- "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end:…Mon, Apr 5 · Lewis Carroll
- Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple…Tue, Apr 6 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- With malice toward none, with charity for allWed, Apr 7 · Abraham Lincoln
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Thu, Apr 8 · Leo Tolstoy
- Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.Fri, Apr 9 · Benjamin Franklin
- Neither a borrower nor a lender beSat, Apr 10 · William Shakespeare
- There is grandeur in this view of lifeSun, Apr 11 · Charles Darwin
- Fortune favors the bold.Mon, Apr 12 · Virgil
- 'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fictionTue, Apr 13 · Lord Byron
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the…Wed, Apr 14 · William Blake
- A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!Thu, Apr 15 · William Shakespeare
- When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?Fri, Apr 16 · Michel de Montaigne
- Beauty is truth, truth beautySat, Apr 17 · John Keats
- Grow old along with me! The best is yet to beSun, Apr 18 · Robert Browning
- To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.Mon, Apr 19 · Confucius
- Season of mists and mellow fruitfulnessTue, Apr 20 · John Keats
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.Wed, Apr 21 · William Shakespeare
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in…Thu, Apr 22 · John Muir
- All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely playersFri, Apr 23 · William Shakespeare
- Tyger Tyger, burning bright, In the forests of the nightSat, Apr 24 · William Blake
- To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.Sun, Apr 25 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- I can resist everything except temptation.Mon, Apr 26 · Oscar Wilde
- Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.Tue, Apr 27 · Mark Twain
- No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.Wed, Apr 28 · Samuel Johnson
- Very little is needed to make a happy lifeThu, Apr 29 · Marcus Aurelius
- …the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves…Fri, Apr 30 · Ada Lovelace
May 2027
- Beware of little Expences, a small Leak will sink a great Ship.Sat, May 1 · Benjamin Franklin
- Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublimeSun, May 2 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselvesMon, May 3 · William Shakespeare
- Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy standsTue, May 4 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.Wed, May 5 · Laozi
- The truth is rarely pure and never simple.Thu, May 6 · Oscar Wilde
- The better part of valour is discretionFri, May 7 · William Shakespeare
- But though an old man, I am but a young gardener.Sat, May 8 · Thomas Jefferson
- …knowledge itself is powerSun, May 9 · Francis Bacon
- Hope springs eternal in the human breastMon, May 10 · Alexander Pope
- …success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as…Tue, May 11 · Booker T. Washington
- Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress.Wed, May 12 · Anton Chekhov
- I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.Thu, May 13 · Henry David Thoreau
- …give me liberty, or give me death!Fri, May 14 · Patrick Henry
- Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.Sat, May 15 · Alexander Pope
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.Sun, May 16 · William Shakespeare
- Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.Mon, May 17 · Jonathan Swift
- Failure is impossible.Tue, May 18 · Susan B. Anthony
- A rolling stone gathers no moss.Wed, May 19 · Publilius Syrus
- Cast down your bucket where you are.Thu, May 20 · Booker T. Washington
- Tell the truth or trump—but get the trick.Fri, May 21 · Mark Twain
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can…Sat, May 22 · G. K. Chesterton
- …when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must…Sun, May 23 · Arthur Conan Doyle
- The best is the enemy of the good.Mon, May 24 · Voltaire
- Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.Tue, May 25 · Theodore Roosevelt
- What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?Wed, May 26 · Henry David Thoreau
- It is not the critic who countsThu, May 27 · Theodore Roosevelt
- The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation.Fri, May 28 · Henry David Thoreau
- I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not whereSat, May 29 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.Sun, May 30 · Henry David Thoreau
- Haste makes Waste.Mon, May 31 · Benjamin Franklin
June 2027
- Strong and content I travel the open road.Tue, Jun 1 · Walt Whitman
- I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and…Wed, Jun 2 · Rudyard Kipling
- Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.Thu, Jun 3 · Mark Twain
- On two occasions I have been asked,—"Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine…Fri, Jun 4 · Charles Babbage
- …ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.Sat, Jun 5 · John F. Kennedy
- Into each life some rain must fallSun, Jun 6 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.Mon, Jun 7 · William Shakespeare
- In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.Tue, Jun 8 · Louis Pasteur
- The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.Wed, Jun 9 · Marcus Aurelius
- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Thu, Jun 10 · F. Scott Fitzgerald
- All warfare is based on deception.Fri, Jun 11 · Sun Tzu
- All that glisters is not goldSat, Jun 12 · William Shakespeare
- The sun never shined on a cause of greater worth.Sun, Jun 13 · Thomas Paine
- They also serve who only stand and wait.Mon, Jun 14 · John Milton
- The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.Tue, Jun 15 · Abraham Lincoln
- A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.Wed, Jun 16 · Charles Darwin
- Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form…Thu, Jun 17 · Epictetus
- …let us cultivate our garden.Fri, Jun 18 · Voltaire
- I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Sat, Jun 19 · Thomas Jefferson
- …there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good-humor.Sun, Jun 20 · Charles Dickens
- Hitch your wagon to a star.Mon, Jun 21 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- …where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.Tue, Jun 22 · Thomas Gray
- Curiouser and curiouser!Wed, Jun 23 · Lewis Carroll
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in…Thu, Jun 24 · George Bernard Shaw
- Sweet are the uses of adversityFri, Jun 25 · William Shakespeare
- Glass, china, and reputation, are easily crack'd, and never well mended.Sat, Jun 26 · Benjamin Franklin
- We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.Sun, Jun 27 · Alan Turing
- If you'd know the Value of Money, go and borrow some.Mon, Jun 28 · Benjamin Franklin
- To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the…Tue, Jun 29 · William Blake
- One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.Wed, Jun 30 · William Shakespeare
July 2027
- Well done is better than well said.Thu, Jul 1 · Benjamin Franklin
- It was the best of times, it was the worst of timesFri, Jul 2 · Charles Dickens
- In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.Sat, Jul 3 · Benjamin Franklin
- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equalSun, Jul 4 · Thomas Jefferson
- There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shoreMon, Jul 5 · Lord Byron
- You see, but you do not observe.Tue, Jul 6 · Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth.Wed, Jul 7 · Thomas Fuller
- …it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.Thu, Jul 8 · Lewis Carroll
- Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.Fri, Jul 9 · Mark Twain
- Patience, n. A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue.Sat, Jul 10 · Ambrose Bierce
- This above all: to thine own self be trueSun, Jul 11 · William Shakespeare
- I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberatelyMon, Jul 12 · Henry David Thoreau
- The course of true love never did run smoothTue, Jul 13 · William Shakespeare
- Any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants so long as it is black.Wed, Jul 14 · Henry Ford
- It is not that we have a short space of time, but that we waste much of it.Thu, Jul 15 · Seneca the Younger
- Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.Fri, Jul 16 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one daySat, Jul 17 · Aristotle
- Drops of water hollow out a stone.Sun, Jul 18 · Ovid
- I wandered lonely as a cloudMon, Jul 19 · William Wordsworth
- We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they…Tue, Jul 20 · John F. Kennedy
- Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of YorkWed, Jul 21 · William Shakespeare
- We are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine…Thu, Jul 22 · Henry David Thoreau
- I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair…Fri, Jul 23 · Robert Louis Stevenson
- …the unexamined life is not worth livingSat, Jul 24 · Socrates
- If men were angels, no government would be necessary.Sun, Jul 25 · James Madison
- To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.Mon, Jul 26 · Oscar Wilde
- Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.Tue, Jul 27 · Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Though she be but little, she is fierce.Wed, Jul 28 · William Shakespeare
- Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."Thu, Jul 29 · Edgar Allan Poe
- Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.Fri, Jul 30 · Theodore Roosevelt
- Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but…Sat, Jul 31 · Mark Twain
August 2027
- If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they…Sun, Aug 1 · Henry David Thoreau
- Advice, n. The smallest current coin.Mon, Aug 2 · Ambrose Bierce
- Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to noneTue, Aug 3 · William Shakespeare
- Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I: But when the trees bow down their heads The…Wed, Aug 4 · Christina Rossetti
- Little Strokes, Fell great Oaks.Thu, Aug 5 · Benjamin Franklin
- A house divided against itself cannot stand.Fri, Aug 6 · Abraham Lincoln
- It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a…Sat, Aug 7 · Florence Nightingale
- Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!Sun, Aug 8 · Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.Mon, Aug 9 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and…Tue, Aug 10 · Francis Bacon
- There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not…Wed, Aug 11 · Oscar Wilde
- …the proof of the pudding is the eatingThu, Aug 12 · Miguel de Cervantes
- I celebrate myself, and sing myselfFri, Aug 13 · Walt Whitman
- Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.Sat, Aug 14 · Mark Twain
- …the only thing we have to fear is fear itselfSun, Aug 15 · Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.Mon, Aug 16 · Dwight D. Eisenhower
- A thing of beauty is a joy for everTue, Aug 17 · John Keats
- To err is human, to forgive divine.Wed, Aug 18 · Alexander Pope
- These are the times that try men's souls.Thu, Aug 19 · Thomas Paine
- Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of natureFri, Aug 20 · Michael Faraday
- We are such stuff As dreams are made onSat, Aug 21 · William Shakespeare
- Time makes more converts than reason.Sun, Aug 22 · Thomas Paine
- The report of my death was an exaggeration.Mon, Aug 23 · Mark Twain
- The time has come, the Walrus said, To talk of many things: Of shoes—and ships—and…Tue, Aug 24 · Lewis Carroll
- God's in his heaven— All's right with the world!Wed, Aug 25 · Robert Browning
- No man is an island, entire of itselfThu, Aug 26 · John Donne
- O brave new world, That has such people in't!Fri, Aug 27 · William Shakespeare
- It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill.Sat, Aug 28 · Wilbur Wright
- Facts are stubborn thingsSun, Aug 29 · John Adams
- Put all your eggs in the one basket and—WATCH THAT BASKET.Mon, Aug 30 · Mark Twain
- I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.Tue, Aug 31 · Louisa May Alcott
September 2027
- A little learning is a dang'rous thingWed, Sep 1 · Alexander Pope
- Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.Thu, Sep 2 · Mark Twain
- For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.Fri, Sep 3 · Alexander Pope
- He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine;…Sat, Sep 4 · Thomas Jefferson
- In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.Sun, Sep 5 · John Muir
- Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual…Mon, Sep 6 · Ambrose Bierce
- Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and…Tue, Sep 7 · Henry David Thoreau
- "Data! Data! Data!" he cried impatiently. "I can't make bricks without clay."Wed, Sep 8 · Arthur Conan Doyle
- …when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know…Thu, Sep 9 · Lord Kelvin
- While we are postponing, life speeds by.Fri, Sep 10 · Seneca the Younger
- A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little mindsSat, Sep 11 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweetSun, Sep 12 · William Shakespeare
- What are men to rocks and mountains?Mon, Sep 13 · Jane Austen
- In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.Tue, Sep 14 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- …whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of…Wed, Sep 15 · Jonathan Swift
- Lost time is never found again.Thu, Sep 16 · Benjamin Franklin
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingersFri, Sep 17 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Man is a Tool-using AnimalSat, Sep 18 · Thomas Carlyle
- The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our…Sun, Sep 19 · William Wordsworth
- Earth laughs in flowersMon, Sep 20 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer…Tue, Sep 21 · Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.Wed, Sep 22 · Plutarch
- Remember that time is money.Thu, Sep 23 · Benjamin Franklin
- …a sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.Fri, Sep 24 · Washington Irving
- Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.Sat, Sep 25 · Benjamin Franklin
- Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth…Sun, Sep 26 · Theodore Roosevelt
- Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow.Mon, Sep 27 · Horace
- In Wildness is the preservation of the World.Tue, Sep 28 · Henry David Thoreau
- The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.Wed, Sep 29 · John Milton
- October. This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks. The…Thu, Sep 30 · Mark Twain
October 2027
- All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream.Fri, Oct 1 · Edgar Allan Poe
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep aloneSat, Oct 2 · Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- I cannot live without booksSun, Oct 3 · Thomas Jefferson
- The planet is the cradle of mind, but one cannot live in a cradle forever.Mon, Oct 4 · Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
- …to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arriveTue, Oct 5 · Robert Louis Stevenson
- The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men Gang aft agleyWed, Oct 6 · Robert Burns
- Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.Thu, Oct 7 · Helen Keller
- I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself than be crowded on a velvet…Fri, Oct 8 · Henry David Thoreau
- The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.Sat, Oct 9 · William Blake
- …sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.Sun, Oct 10 · Lewis Carroll
- Beware of all enterprises that require new clothesMon, Oct 11 · Henry David Thoreau
- There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortuneTue, Oct 12 · William Shakespeare
- Necessity never made a good bargain.Wed, Oct 13 · Benjamin Franklin
- If there is no struggle there is no progress.Thu, Oct 14 · Frederick Douglass
- …form ever follows functionFri, Oct 15 · Louis Sullivan
- Call me Ishmael.Sat, Oct 16 · Herman Melville
- Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.Sun, Oct 17 · Oscar Wilde
- The lady doth protest too much, methinks.Mon, Oct 18 · William Shakespeare
- Life is short, and Art longTue, Oct 19 · Hippocrates
- Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious…Wed, Oct 20 · Henry David Thoreau
- Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new…Thu, Oct 21 · Abraham Lincoln
- The mountains are calling & I must goFri, Oct 22 · John Muir
- It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we…Sat, Oct 23 · Adam Smith
- They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve…Sun, Oct 24 · Benjamin Franklin
- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes…Mon, Oct 25 · Leonardo da Vinci
- I think it has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world.Tue, Oct 26 · Susan B. Anthony
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.Wed, Oct 27 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must…Thu, Oct 28 · Theodore Roosevelt
- "Hope" is the thing with feathersFri, Oct 29 · Emily Dickinson
- Diligence is the mother of good luck.Sat, Oct 30 · Benjamin Franklin
- It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.Sun, Oct 31 · George Washington
November 2027
- …neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift…Mon, Nov 1 · Herodotus
- Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.Tue, Nov 2 · Mark Twain
- Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain…Wed, Nov 3 · Walt Whitman
- Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.Thu, Nov 4 · William Shakespeare
- …when a man is tired of London, he is tired of lifeFri, Nov 5 · Samuel Johnson
- God helps them that help themselves.Sat, Nov 6 · Benjamin Franklin
- Please, sir, I want some more.Sun, Nov 7 · Charles Dickens
- Eat to live, and not live to eat.Mon, Nov 8 · Benjamin Franklin
- Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.Tue, Nov 9 · Francis Bacon
- He that lies down with Dogs, shall rise up with fleas.Wed, Nov 10 · Benjamin Franklin
- If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirsThu, Nov 11 · Rudyard Kipling
- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.Fri, Nov 12 · Oscar Wilde
- It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.Sat, Nov 13 · Arthur Conan Doyle
- Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days.Sun, Nov 14 · Benjamin Franklin
- Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.Mon, Nov 15 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Mr. Watson—Come here—I want to see you.Tue, Nov 16 · Alexander Graham Bell
- Three may keep a Secret, if two of them are dead.Wed, Nov 17 · Benjamin Franklin
- Brevity is the soul of witThu, Nov 18 · William Shakespeare
- Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result…Fri, Nov 19 · Charles Dickens
- …when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.Sat, Nov 20 · Samuel Johnson
- He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sun-beams out of cucumbersSun, Nov 21 · Jonathan Swift
- Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.Mon, Nov 22 · William Wordsworth
- If music be the food of love, play onTue, Nov 23 · William Shakespeare
- Every artist was first an amateur.Wed, Nov 24 · Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.Thu, Nov 25 · Oscar Wilde
- If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Fri, Nov 26 · Isaac Newton
- Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.Sat, Nov 27 · William Shakespeare
- Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all productionSun, Nov 28 · Adam Smith
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.Mon, Nov 29 · Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?Tue, Nov 30 · Robert Browning
December 2027
- Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.Wed, Dec 1 · Thomas Carlyle
- I made this one [letter] longer only because I have not had the leisure to make it…Thu, Dec 2 · Blaise Pascal
- Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passingFri, Dec 3 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- I think, therefore I am.Sat, Dec 4 · René Descartes
- Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.Sun, Dec 5 · George Santayana
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.Mon, Dec 6 · Thomas Edison
- Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.Tue, Dec 7 · Mark Twain
- I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.Wed, Dec 8 · Johannes Kepler
- If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?Thu, Dec 9 · Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Child is father of the ManFri, Dec 10 · William Wordsworth
- It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good…Sat, Dec 11 · Jane Austen
- "Begin at the beginning," the King said gravely, "and go on till you come to the end:…Sun, Dec 12 · Lewis Carroll
- Saw the heavens fill with commerce, argosies of magic sails, Pilots of the purple…Mon, Dec 13 · Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- With malice toward none, with charity for allTue, Dec 14 · Abraham Lincoln
- Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.Wed, Dec 15 · Leo Tolstoy
- Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.Thu, Dec 16 · Benjamin Franklin
- Neither a borrower nor a lender beFri, Dec 17 · William Shakespeare
- There is grandeur in this view of lifeSat, Dec 18 · Charles Darwin
- Fortune favors the bold.Sun, Dec 19 · Virgil
- 'Tis strange—but true; for truth is always strange; Stranger than fictionMon, Dec 20 · Lord Byron
- Great things are done when men and mountains meet; This is not done by jostling in the…Tue, Dec 21 · William Blake
- A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!Wed, Dec 22 · William Shakespeare
- When I play with my cat, who knows if I am not a pastime to her more than she is to me?Thu, Dec 23 · Michel de Montaigne
- I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.Fri, Dec 24 · Charles Dickens
- God bless Us, Every One!Sat, Dec 25 · Charles Dickens
- Beauty is truth, truth beautySun, Dec 26 · John Keats
- Grow old along with me! The best is yet to beMon, Dec 27 · Robert Browning
- To know what you know and what you do not know, that is true knowledge.Tue, Dec 28 · Confucius
- Season of mists and mellow fruitfulnessWed, Dec 29 · John Keats
- Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.Thu, Dec 30 · William Shakespeare
- When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in…Fri, Dec 31 · John Muir