John Ray famous quotes

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

#Love #Neighbor #Love Thy Neighbor

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

#Happiness #Joy #Made

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

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

#Wise #Wisdom #Foe

Where love fails we espy all faults.
-- John Ray

#Faults #Failing

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

#Education #Wise #Fool

Good words cool more than cold water.
-- John Ray

#Water #Cold #Cold Heart

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

#Doors #Giving #Charity

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

#Waste

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

#Butterfly #Eye #Men

A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
-- John Ray

#Worry #Debt #Pay

Manners make often fortunes.
-- John Ray

#Manners #Fortune

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
-- John Ray

#Wise #Adversity #Men

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
-- John Ray

#Wise #Adversity #Men

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

#Horse #Thinking

After a Christmas comes a Lent.
-- John Ray

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

#Use #Reason #Instinct

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

#Cat #Tails #Higher

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

#Money #Made #Hearted

Never meet trouble half-way.
-- John Ray

#Half #Way #Trouble

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

#Law #Pounds #Thousand

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

#Mother #Children #Blessing

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

#Writing #Ink #Use

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

#Taken #Global Warming #Communism

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

#War #Devil #Chaplains

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
-- John Ray

#Horse #Wish #Might

The honester the man, the worse luck.
-- John Ray

#Honesty #Men #Luck

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink.
-- John Ray

#Memories #Science #Ink

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
-- John Ray

#Arithmetic #Algebra #Metaphysics

Many without punishment, none without sin.
-- John Ray

#Punishment #Sin

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

#Creation

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.
-- John Ray

#Wise #Men #Wind

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

#Wisdom #Gander #Geese

Better the last smile than the first laughter.
-- John Ray

#Laughter #Lasts #Firsts

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.
-- John Ray

#Death #Heart #Lasts

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
-- John Ray

#Wine #Water #Swim

One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.
-- John Ray

#Passion #Health #Mean

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

#Running #Talking #Secret

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
-- John Ray

#Hands #Fortune #Frugality

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.
-- John Ray

#Animal #Use #Weapons

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

#Fall #Tree #Firsts

Every man praises his own wares.
-- John Ray

#Men #Praise

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
-- John Ray

#Disease #Pleasure #Taxes

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

#Tree #Walnuts #Walnut Trees

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
-- John Ray

#Liberty #Slavery #Fats

Guilt is always jealous
-- John Ray

#Jealousy #Jealous #Guilt

Misery loves company.
-- John Ray

#Love #Misery #Company

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

#Men #Sea #Pilots

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
-- John Ray

#Ballet #Fortune #Pipe

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

#Cynical #Too Much

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

#Beautiful #Stupid #Men

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

#Summer #Rain #Weather

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
-- John Ray

#Military #Hammers #Praying

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
-- 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

#Men #Honor #Occupation

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

#Cat #Hot

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

#Power #Tunes #Pay

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
-- John Ray

#Geese #Feathers

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

#Eavesdropping

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

#Children #Pigeons #Peas

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

#Cost #Earth #Caution

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

#Philosophy #Philosophical #Men

Wedlock is a padlock.
-- John Ray

#Padlocks #Wedlock

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

#Party #Men #Ignorant

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

#Thinking #People #Reform

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

#Law #Break

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

#Love Is #Pie #Pudding

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

#Children #Mad #Parent