John Fletcher Quotes & Sayings

Hence, all you vain delights, As short as are the nights Wherein you spend your folly! There's naught in this life sweet But only melancholy; O sweetest melancholy! — John Fletcher

That soul that can Be honest is the only perfect man. — John Fletcher

Great Actions speak Great Minds. — John Fletcher

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts. — John Fletcher

Go far - too far you cannot, still the farther. The more experience finds you: and go sparing. One meal a week will serve you, and one suit, through all your travels; for you'll find it certain. — John Fletcher

Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well; I see you have a singing face. — John Fletcher

Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan,
Sorrow calls no time that 's gone;
Violets plucked, the sweetest rain
Makes not fresh nor grow again. — John Fletcher

Love's tongue is in his eyes. — John Fletcher

O great corrector of enormous times, Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider Of dusty and old titles, that healest with blood The earth when it is sick, and curest the world O' the pleurisy of people. — John Fletcher

I find the medicine worse than the malady. — John Fletcher

Tyranny is yielding to the lust of the governing. — John Fletcher

Joys as winged dreams fly fast, / Why should sadness longer last? / Grief is but a wound to woe; / Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. — John Fletcher

'Tis virtue, and not birth that makes us noble: Great actions speak great minds, and such should govern. — John Fletcher

O woman, perfect woman! what distraction Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil! — John Fletcher

It's impossible to ravish me, I'm so willing. — John Fletcher

Only look to Jesus. He died for you, died in your place, died under the frowns of heaven, that we might die under its smile. — John Fletcher

Charity and treating begin at home. — John Fletcher

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose. — John Fletcher

Corruption is a tree, whose branches are Of an immeasurable length: they spread Ev'rywhere; and the dew that drops from thence Hath infected some chairs and stools of authority. — John Fletcher

A woman friend! He that believes that weakness, Steers in a stormy night without a compass. — John Fletcher

Death hath so many doors to let out life. — John Fletcher

Then, everlasting Love , restrain thy will; 'Tis god -like to have power, but not to kill. — John Fletcher

Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything; The world's a fine believing world, write news. — John Fletcher

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do tomorrow. — John Fletcher

Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. — John Fletcher

He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,
Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;
But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow,
Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow. — John Fletcher

We must not be content to be cleansed from sin; we must be filled with the Spirit. — John Fletcher

The coward's weapon, poison. — John Fletcher

Wine works the heart up, wakes the wit;
There is no cure 'gainst age but it. and
'Tis late and cold, stir up the fire;
Sit close and draw the table nigher;
Be merry and drink wine that is old,
A hearty medicine 'gainst the cold. — John Fletcher

Deed, not words shall speak me. — John Fletcher

Deeds, not words shall speak me. — John Fletcher

Man is his own star, and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light. — John Fletcher

Speak boldly and speak truly, shame the devil. — John Fletcher

A man of words and not of deeds Is like a garden full of weeds And when the weeds begin to grow It's like a garden full of snow ... — John Fletcher