Best 63 quotes of John Ray on MyQuotes

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

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

A maid that laughs is half taken.

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.

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

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

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

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

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.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

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

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

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

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

Good words cool more than cold water.

Guilt is always jealous

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

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

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.

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

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.

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

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

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

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Manners make often fortunes.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Misery loves company.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

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.

ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.

Never meet trouble half-way.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

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

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

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

The honester the man, the worse luck.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

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.