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
Category: Quote of the Day
Aphorisms, proverbs, wise sayings and other witty, pithy stuff
09JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
What if this present were the world’s last night?
John Donne
08JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so,
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow,
Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.
John Donne
07JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod be washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lessee, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Manner of thy friends or of thine owne were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
John Donne
06JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
If a man be gloomy, let him keep to himself. No one has a right to go croaking about society, or, what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.
Benjamin Disraeli
05JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.
Benjamin Disraeli
04JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Benjamin Disraeli
03JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
02JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.
Benjamin Disraeli
01JUL2021 – Quote of the Day
(In response to a man who asked Disraeli “What is the difference between a misfortune and a calamity?”)
If Gladstone fell into the Thames, that would be a misfortune; and if anybody pulled him out, that, I suppose, would be a calamity.
Benjamin Disraeli