Words of the wise

Quotes from 30 great thinkers, rendered as cards worth sharing.

Pick a thinker, pull a quote, and download it as a clean 16:9 image. No login, no upload, no build step — everything renders in your browser on an HTML canvas. English and Russian, with an editorial card you can make your own.

▶ Open the live site → davvikq.github.io/wise
_{It's already hosted — no need to clone or deploy your own copy to use it.}

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Why

Most quote sites are one of two things: a plain text list you scroll and forget, or a low-effort image with a stock-photo background and a font picked at random. Neither is something you'd actually post.

This is a small attempt at the third thing — a typographic card that treats the quote like a printed page. The thinker's name is set in monospaced caps, the years sit on the opposite edge, and the words get room to breathe. You choose the thinker; the card does the rest and exports at full resolution.

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Features

• 30 thinkers, 836 quotes — from Socrates and Sun Tzu to Nietzsche, Dostoevsky, and Machiavelli.
• Bilingual — the whole interface and every quote switch between English and Russian.
• One-tap export — download a 1920×1080 PNG, or copy the quote and author as text.
• Make it yours — font, size, alignment, background and text colors, and your own handle on the card. Settings persist locally.
• Three card looks out of the box — dark, paper, and blue.
• No build, no dependencies — plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Fonts load from Google Fonts; everything else is local.
• Quiet on accessibility — keyboard focus, reduced-motion support, and AA-contrast text.

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Preview

Same engine, three traditions of type — switch them in the Customize panel.

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Run locally

It's a static site, so any local server works:

python -m http.server 8000
# or
npx serve

Then open the printed URL. No install, no toolchain.

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Deploy

It's already live at davvikq.github.io/wise. You only need this section to host your own copy.

There's no build, so deploying is just hosting the files. For GitHub Pages:

1. Push to a repository.
2. Settings → Pages → Build and deployment → Deploy from a branch, pick main / root.
3. The site is live at https://<user>.github.io/<repo>/ about a minute later.

The same files drop straight onto Netlify, Vercel, or any static host.

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A note on the quotes

Quotes are curated and attributed by hand, with misattributions and "fake-but-popular" lines deliberately left out. Wording can still vary between editions and translations, so a given line may not match a specific printing word for word.

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License

MIT — use it, fork it, ship it. © 2026 Davvik.