Quote

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.

John Donne

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Donne
Died: 1631
Died: March 31
Lawyer
Pastor
Poet
Politician
Songwriter
Translator
Writer
London
England
Very Rev. John Donne
Children
Reserve
Reserves
Yesterday
Sorrow
Tomorrow
Talk

More quotes by John Donne

Image
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
John Donne
Image
When I died last, and, Dear, I die As often as from thee I go Though it be but an hour ago, And lovers' hours be full eternity.
John Donne
Image
Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?
John Donne
Image
No man is an island, entire of itself every man is a piece of the continent.
John Donne
Image
Nature's lay idiot, I taught thee to love.
John Donne
Image
Love is a growing, or full constant light And his first minute, after noon, is night.
John Donne
Image
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
John Donne
Image
My love though silly is more brave.
John Donne
Image
God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.
John Donne
Image
Kind pity chokes my spleen.
John Donne
Image
I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.
John Donne
Image
The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but the man knows that he knows.
John Donne
Image
I have done one braver thing than all the Worthies did, and yet a braver thence doth spring, which is, to keep that hid.
John Donne
Image
Lust-bred diseases rot thee.
John Donne
Image
True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.
John Donne
Image
All whom war, dearth, age, agues, tyrannies, Despair, law, chance, hath slain.
John Donne
Image
A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .
John Donne
Image
Tis true, 'tis day what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.
John Donne
Image
Die not, poore death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
Image
If every gnat that flies were an archangel, all that could but tell me that there is a God and the poorest worm that creeps tells me that.
John Donne