John Ray Quotes & Sayings

Every man praises his own wares. — John Ray

Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad. — John Ray

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish. — John Ray

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets. — John Ray

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes. — John Ray

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly. — John Ray

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous. — John Ray

To those we love best we say the least — John Ray

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time. — John Ray

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms. — John Ray

A joy that's shared is a joy made double. — John Ray

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window. — John Ray

Who depends on another man's table often dines late. — John Ray

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. — John Ray

In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love. — John Ray

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly. — John Ray

The use of butterflies is to adorn the world and delight the eyes of men, to brighten the countryside, serving like so many golden spangles to decorate the fields. — John Ray

Guilt is always jealous — John Ray

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason. — John Ray

Never meet trouble half-way. — John Ray

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing. — John Ray

They love too much that die for love. — John Ray

After a Christmas comes a Lent. — John Ray

They that make laws must not break them. — John Ray

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain. — John Ray

There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them. — John Ray

Spend and be free, but make no waste. — John Ray

What's good for the goose is good for the gander. — John Ray

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge. — John Ray

Good words cool more than cold water. — John Ray

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul. — John Ray

Adversity makes men wise but not rich. — John Ray

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter. — John Ray

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail. — John Ray

He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth. — John Ray

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. — John Ray

The younger brother hath the more wit. — John Ray

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation. — John Ray

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be. — John Ray

If the first of July be rainy weather,
It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together. — John Ray

The tree falls not at the first stroke. — John Ray

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig. — John Ray

My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions. — John Ray

That which is evil is soon learned. — John Ray

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. — John Ray

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant. — John Ray

Wedlock is a padlock. — John Ray

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee. — John Ray

Manners make often fortunes. — John Ray

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone. — John Ray

Where love fails we espy all faults. — John Ray

There is for a free man no occupation more worthy and delightful than to contemplate the beauteous works of nature and honor the infinite wisdom and goodness of God. — John Ray

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery — John Ray

Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left. — John Ray

It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor. — John Ray

He who pays the piper can call the tunes. — John Ray

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe. — John Ray

He that buys land buys many stones,
He that buys flesh buys many bones,
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good ale buys nothing else. — John Ray

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword. — John Ray

When friends meet, hearts warm. — John Ray

Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please. — John Ray

Feather by feather the goose is plucked. — John Ray

In a calm sea every man is a pilot. — John Ray

A maid that laughs is half taken. — John Ray

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another — John Ray

Diseases are the tax on pleasures. — John Ray

He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one — John Ray