John Ray Quotes

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

Every man praises his own wares.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

That which is evil is soon learned.

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

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

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

After a Christmas comes a Lent.

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

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.

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

A maid that laughs is half taken.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

When friends meet, hearts warm.

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

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

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

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

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

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

They that make laws must not break them.

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

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

Beauty is power a smile is its sword.

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

Many without punishment none without sin.

The honester the man the worse luck.