Protestant Action

Famous quotes containing the words protestant and/or action:

“So the old flute was doomed and its fate was pathetic,
‘Twas fastened and burned at the stake as heretic,
While the flames roared around it they heard a strange
noise—
‘Twas the old flute still whistling ‘The Protestant Boys’.”
—Unknown. The Old Orange Flute (l. 37–40)

“Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.”
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881)