Norman Stanley Fletcher
Norman Stanley "Fletch" Fletcher (born 2 February 1932) is the main character in the popular BBC sitcom Porridge, and the less-successful spin-off, Going Straight. He was played by Ronnie Barker and is widely renowned as one of the great comic creations.
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“Why don’t you go home to your wife? I’ll tell you what. I’ll go home to your wife and outside of the improvements, you’ll never know the difference. Pull over to the side of the road there and let me see your marriage license.”
—S.J. Perelman, U.S. screenwriter, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, and Norman Z. McLeod. Groucho Marx, Horsefeathers, a wisecrack made to Huxley College’s outgoing president (1932)
“Then I will no longer
Find myself in life as in a strange garment”
—William Stanley Merwin (b. 1927)
“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 (1579–1625)