John Ray Quotes

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

Wedlock is a padlock.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

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

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

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

Good words cool more than cold water.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

To those we love best we say the least

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

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

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.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.

They love too much that die for love.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

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

Manners make often fortunes.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

Better the last smile than the first laughter.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Never meet trouble half-way.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

Guilt is always jealous

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

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

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

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

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

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

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

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

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.

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.

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

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

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

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

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.

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