Men Quotes by John Donne

Other men's crosses are not my crosses.

— John Donne

No man is an island unto himself.

— John Donne

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

— John Donne

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.

— John Donne

Young men mend not their sight by using old men's spectacles.

— John Donne

In best understandings, sin began, Angels sinned first, then Devils, and then Man.

— John Donne

O how feeble is man's power, that if good fortune fall, cannot add another hour, nor a lost hour recall!

— John Donne

Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of…

— John Donne

The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn…

— John Donne

It is too little to call man a little world; Except God, man is a diminutive to nothing.

— John Donne

Christ beats his drum, but he does not press men; Christ is served with voluntaries.

— John Donne

Man hath weaved out a net, and this net throwne upon the Heavens, and now they are his own.

— John Donne

I do not love a man, except I hate his vices, because those vices are the enemies, and the destruction of that…

— John Donne

Men are sponges, which, to pour out, receive; Who know false play, rather than lose, deceive. For in best understandings sin began,…

— John Donne

As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the…

— John Donne

At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament,…

— John Donne

Great sins are great possessions; but levities and vanities possess us too; and men had rather part with Christ than with any…

— John Donne

Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he…

— John Donne

Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and…

— John Donne

God affords no man the comfort, the false comfort of Atheism: He will not allow a pretending Atheist the power to flatter…

— John Donne

The difference between the reason of man and the instinct of the beast is this, that the beast does but know, but…

— John Donne

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If…

— John Donne

And when a whirl-winde hath blowne the dust of the Churchyard into the Church, and man sweeps out the dust of the…

— John Donne

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification; and as without this, without holiness, no man shall see God, though he pore whole nights…

— John Donne

Men perish with whispering sins-nay, with silent sins, sins that never tell the conscience that they are sins, as often with crying…

— John Donne

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the…

— John Donne

Contemplative and bookish men must of necessity be more quarrelsome than others, because they contend not about matter of fact, nor can…

— John Donne

All mankind is one volume. When one man dies, a chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a…

— John Donne

When my mouth shall be filled with dust, and the worm shall feed, and feed sweetly upon me, when the ambitious man…

— John Donne

Let man's soul be a sphere, and then, in this, The intelligence that moves, devotion is.

— John Donne

Doth not a man die even in his birth? The breaking of prison is death, and what is our birth, but a…

— John Donne

Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

— John Donne

Nothing but man of all envenomed things, doth work upon itself, with inborn stings.

— John Donne

God himself took a day to rest in, and a good man's grave is his Sabbath.

— John Donne

Oft from new truths, and new phrase, new doubts grow, As strange attire aliens the men we know.

— John Donne

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach…

— John Donne

Thou art slave to fate, chance, kings, and desperate men, And dost with poison, war, and sickness dwell, And poppy, or charms,…

— John Donne

From rest and sleep, which but thy pictures be, Much pleasure, then from thee much more, must flow, And soonest our best…

— John Donne

And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth,…

— John Donne