John William Fletcher Quotes

"Should I comfort those who do not mourn?" Some preachers are too quick and too willing to hand out pardons to sinners who do not mourn over their crimes!

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

Fanaticism is the child of false zeal and of superstition, the father of intolerance and of persecution.

Come landlord fill a flowing bowl until it does run over, Tonight we will all merry be--tomorrow we'll get sober.

The sins we do, people behold with optics, Which shew them ten times more than common vices, And often multiply them.

Vice gets more in this vicious world than piety.

Leap hearts to lips, and in our kisses meet.

To work a fell revenge a man's a fool, if not instructed in a woman's school.