--- title: "Quote of the Day Archive – Every Day’s Quote | quote.video" description: "Every quote of the day from the last three months, newest first, with author and source, plus a lookup for any date, from a birthday to an anniversary." url: https://quote.video/quote-of-the-day/archive --- [Quote of the day](https://quote.video/quote-of-the-day) Archive # Quote of the day archive Every date has its own [quote of the day](https://quote.video/quote-of-the-day), worked out from the date itself, so the quote for a given day never changes. Below are the last three months, newest first. To find the quote for any other date, a birthday or an anniversary say, use the box. [ Make today’s quote into a video ](https://quote.video/#text=People+seldom+improve+when+they+have+no+other+model+but+themselves+to+copy+after.&author=Oliver+Goldsmith&make=1) Quote for a date ## November 2026 1. Friday, 13 November 2026 > People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy after. [Oliver Goldsmith](https://quote.video/quotes/author/oliver-goldsmith) 2. Thursday, 12 November 2026 > The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. [Oliver Wendell Holmes](https://quote.video/quotes/author/oliver-wendell-holmes) The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table. vi 3. Wednesday, 11 November 2026 > Trust him little who praises all, him less who censures all, and him least who is indifferent about all. [Johann Kaspar Lavater](https://quote.video/quotes/author/johann-kaspar-lavater) 4. Tuesday, 10 November 2026 > A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) Essays. First Series. Friendship 5. Monday, 9 November 2026 > No longer talk at all about the kind of man that a good man ought to be, but be such. [Marcus Aurelius](https://quote.video/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius) Meditations, Book X.16 · translated by George Long 6. Sunday, 8 November 2026 > Pride is a vice which pride itself inclines every man to find in others and overlook in himself. [Samuel Johnson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/samuel-johnson) 7. Saturday, 7 November 2026 > Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. [Jonathan Swift](https://quote.video/quotes/author/jonathan-swift) Thoughts on Various Subjects 8. Friday, 6 November 2026 > The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. [Confucius](https://quote.video/quotes/author/confucius) Analects, XIII.27 · translated by James Legge 9. Thursday, 5 November 2026 > Children think not of what is past, nor what is to come, but enjoy the present time, which few of us do. [Jean de La Bruyère](https://quote.video/quotes/author/jean-de-la-bruyere) 10. Wednesday, 4 November 2026 > Let the great world spin forever down the ringing grooves of change. [Alfred Tennyson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/alfred-tennyson) Locksley Hall, Line 182 11. Tuesday, 3 November 2026 > He who comes up to his own ideal of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in his mind. [William Hazlitt](https://quote.video/quotes/author/william-hazlitt) 12. Monday, 2 November 2026 > A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give no peace. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) Essays: First Series 13. Sunday, 1 November 2026 > Hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule. [The Buddha](https://quote.video/quotes/author/the-buddha) Dhammapada, v. 5 · translated by F. Max Müller ## October 2026 1. Saturday, 31 October 2026 > There is no man so friendless but that he can find a friend sincere enough to tell him disagreeable truths. [Edward Bulwer-Lytton](https://quote.video/quotes/author/edward-bulwer-lytton) 2. Friday, 30 October 2026 > There never was in the world two opinions alike, no more than two hairs or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity. [Michel de Montaigne](https://quote.video/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne) Book ii, Chap. xxxvii. Of the Resemblance of Children to their Fathers 3. Thursday, 29 October 2026 > His imagination resembled the wings of an ostrich. It enabled him to run, though not to soar. [Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay](https://quote.video/quotes/author/thomas-babington-macaulay-1st-baron-macaulay) On John Dryden. 1828 4. Wednesday, 28 October 2026 > You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence. [Sydney Smith](https://quote.video/quotes/author/sydney-smith) Lady Holland’s Memoir. Vol. i. p. 261 5. Tuesday, 27 October 2026 > Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by you only regret that you didn’t see him do it. [Mark Twain](https://quote.video/quotes/author/mark-twain) Pudd’nhead Wilson 6. Monday, 26 October 2026 > Great men are more distinguished by range and extent than by originality. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) Representative Men 7. Sunday, 25 October 2026 > We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. [Abraham Lincoln](https://quote.video/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln) First Inaugural Address 8. Saturday, 24 October 2026 > Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It’s splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world. Lucy Maud Montgomery Anne of Green Gables 9. Friday, 23 October 2026 > True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man’s self, and an undisturbed doing his duty, whatever evil besets him or danger lies in his way. [John Locke](https://quote.video/quotes/author/john-locke) 10. Thursday, 22 October 2026 > Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. [Francis Bacon](https://quote.video/quotes/author/francis-bacon) Of Studies 11. Wednesday, 21 October 2026 > Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) Self-Reliance, Essays: First Series 12. Tuesday, 20 October 2026 > The world is a wheel, and it will all come round right. [Benjamin Disraeli](https://quote.video/quotes/author/benjamin-disraeli) Endymion, Chap. lxx 13. Monday, 19 October 2026 > Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. [Alexander Pope](https://quote.video/quotes/author/alexander-pope) Satires, Epistles, and Odes of Horace, Epilogue to the Satires. Dialogue 14. Sunday, 18 October 2026 > How blessings brighten as they take their flight! [Edward Young](https://quote.video/quotes/author/edward-young) Night thoughts. Night ii, Line 602 15. Saturday, 17 October 2026 > When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion—kind, unassuming persuasion—should ever be adopted. [Abraham Lincoln](https://quote.video/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln) September 19 16. Friday, 16 October 2026 > I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being really good all the time. That would be hypocrisy. [Oscar Wilde](https://quote.video/quotes/author/oscar-wilde) Miscellaneous Aphorisms 17. Thursday, 15 October 2026 > Decadence can find agents only when it wears the mask of progress. [George Bernard Shaw](https://quote.video/quotes/author/george-bernard-shaw) Maxims for Revolutionists 18. Wednesday, 14 October 2026 > The secret of success in society is a certain heartiness and sympathy. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) Essays: Second Series 19. Tuesday, 13 October 2026 > Man is, properly speaking, based upon Hope, he has no other possession but Hope; this world of his is emphatically the Place of Hope. [Thomas Carlyle](https://quote.video/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle) Sartor Resartus 20. Monday, 12 October 2026 > There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. “When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.” [Mark Twain](https://quote.video/quotes/author/mark-twain) Following the Equator 21. Sunday, 11 October 2026 > A man should live with his superiors as he does with his fire: not too near, lest he burn; nor too far off, lest he freeze. [Diogenes Laërtius](https://quote.video/quotes/author/diogenes-laertius) 22. Saturday, 10 October 2026 > Men are disturbed not by things, but by the views which they take of things. [Epictetus](https://quote.video/quotes/author/epictetus) Enchiridion, V · translated by Thomas Wentworth Higginson 23. Friday, 9 October 2026 > Better a witty fool than a foolish wit. [William Shakespeare](https://quote.video/quotes/author/william-shakespeare) Twelfth Night, Act I Scene 5 24. Thursday, 8 October 2026 > There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed. [The Buddha](https://quote.video/quotes/author/the-buddha) Dhammapada, v. 251 · translated by F. Max Müller 25. Wednesday, 7 October 2026 > We do not count a man’s years until he has nothing else to count. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) The Conduct of Life. Old Age 26. Tuesday, 6 October 2026 > A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,—by deeds, not years. [Richard Brinsley Sheridan](https://quote.video/quotes/author/richard-brinsley-sheridan) Pizarro, Act iv. Sc. 1 27. Monday, 5 October 2026 > The true University of these days is a Collection of Books. [Thomas Carlyle](https://quote.video/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle) Heroes and Hero-Worship. The Hero as a Man of Letters 28. Sunday, 4 October 2026 > Diligence is the mother of good fortune. [Miguel de Cervantes](https://quote.video/quotes/author/miguel-de-cervantes) Don Quixote, Part ii. Chap. xliii 29. Saturday, 3 October 2026 > There’s no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. [Seneca](https://quote.video/quotes/author/seneca) 30. Friday, 2 October 2026 > Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him. [John Locke](https://quote.video/quotes/author/john-locke) 31. Thursday, 1 October 2026 > Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves. [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://quote.video/quotes/author/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe) Maxims and Reflections, Life and Character, No. 225 · translated by T. Bailey Saunders ## September 2026 1. Wednesday, 30 September 2026 > Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth. [Henry David Thoreau](https://quote.video/quotes/author/henry-david-thoreau) Walden 2. Tuesday, 29 September 2026 > The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it. [Molière](https://quote.video/quotes/author/moliere) 3. Monday, 28 September 2026 > One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning. [James Russell Lowell](https://quote.video/quotes/author/james-russell-lowell) Among my Books. First Series. Shakespeare Once More 4. Sunday, 27 September 2026 > The course of true love never did run smooth. [William Shakespeare](https://quote.video/quotes/author/william-shakespeare) A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I Scene 1 5. Saturday, 26 September 2026 > Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the older, a part of experience. [Francis Bacon](https://quote.video/quotes/author/francis-bacon) Essays 6. Friday, 25 September 2026 > I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself. [Michel de Montaigne](https://quote.video/quotes/author/michel-de-montaigne) Book iii, Chap. xi. Of Cripples 7. Thursday, 24 September 2026 > If you have given way to anger, be sure that over and above the evil involved therein, you have strengthened the habit, and added fuel to the fire. [Epictetus](https://quote.video/quotes/author/epictetus) Golden Sayings, No. LXXV · translated by Hastings Crossley 8. Wednesday, 23 September 2026 > I shall try to correct errors, when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views, so fast as they shall appear to be true views. [Abraham Lincoln](https://quote.video/quotes/author/abraham-lincoln) April 20 9. Tuesday, 22 September 2026 > How much lies in laughter, the cipher-key wherewith we decipher the whole man. [Thomas Carlyle](https://quote.video/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle) Sartor Resartus 10. Monday, 21 September 2026 > Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [Francis Bacon](https://quote.video/quotes/author/francis-bacon) Of Adversity 11. Sunday, 20 September 2026 > Gentleness does more than violence. [Jean de La Fontaine](https://quote.video/quotes/author/jean-de-la-fontaine) 12. Saturday, 19 September 2026 > In the woods, we return to reason and faith. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) Nature 13. Friday, 18 September 2026 > When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, he has one good reason for letting it alone. [Walter Scott](https://quote.video/quotes/author/walter-scott) 14. Thursday, 17 September 2026 > Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice 15. Wednesday, 16 September 2026 > The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. [Oscar Wilde](https://quote.video/quotes/author/oscar-wilde) Miscellaneous Aphorisms 16. Tuesday, 15 September 2026 > True modesty avoids everything that is criminal; false modesty everything that is unfashionable. [Joseph Addison](https://quote.video/quotes/author/joseph-addison) 17. Monday, 14 September 2026 > Men might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get. Frederick Douglass West India Emancipation speech, Canandaigua NY, 3 August 1857 18. Sunday, 13 September 2026 > Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. Leo Tolstoy War and Peace, 1869 ; said by Kutuzov · translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude 19. Saturday, 12 September 2026 > Industry need not wish, and he that lives upon hope will die fasting. [Benjamin Franklin](https://quote.video/quotes/author/benjamin-franklin) Poor Richard’s Almanack 20. Friday, 11 September 2026 > The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar and familiar things new. [William Makepeace Thackeray](https://quote.video/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray) 21. Thursday, 10 September 2026 > Love is life in its fulness like the cup with its wine. Rabindranath Tagore Stray Birds, 284 22. Wednesday, 9 September 2026 > The soul’s calm sunshine and the heartfelt joy. [Alexander Pope](https://quote.video/quotes/author/alexander-pope) Essay on Man. Epistle iv, Line 168 23. Tuesday, 8 September 2026 > Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last. [Miguel de Cervantes](https://quote.video/quotes/author/miguel-de-cervantes) Don Quixote, Part ii. Chap. lxxiv 24. Monday, 7 September 2026 > Formerly we used to canonise our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarise them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable. [Oscar Wilde](https://quote.video/quotes/author/oscar-wilde) Miscellaneous Aphorisms 25. Sunday, 6 September 2026 > Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. [Benjamin Disraeli](https://quote.video/quotes/author/benjamin-disraeli) Contarini Fleming, Part iv. Chap. v 26. Saturday, 5 September 2026 > Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine. [Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://quote.video/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson) 27. Friday, 4 September 2026 > There is a perennial nobleness, and even sacredness, in work. Were he ever so benighted, forgetful of his high calling, there is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works. [Thomas Carlyle](https://quote.video/quotes/author/thomas-carlyle) Past and Present 28. Thursday, 3 September 2026 > His own character is the arbiter of every one’s fortune. [Publilius Syrus](https://quote.video/quotes/author/publilius-syrus) Maxim 283 29. Wednesday, 2 September 2026 > Love gives greater pleasure than marriage for the same reason that romances are more amusing than history. [Nicolas Chamfort](https://quote.video/quotes/author/nicolas-chamfort) Maxims and Thoughts, No. 146 · translated by William G. Hutchison 30. Tuesday, 1 September 2026 > The only amaranthine flower on earth is virtue; the only lasting treasure, truth. [William Cowper](https://quote.video/quotes/author/william-cowper) The Task The 410 quotes in the rotation come from the [public-domain quote library](https://quote.video/quotes). For a fresh one right now, try the [random quote generator](https://quote.video/quote-generator).