John Ray Quotes

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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

Wedlock is a padlock.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

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

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

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.

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

Where love fails we espy all faults.

To those we love best we say the least

Good words cool more than cold water.

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.

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

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

They love too much that die for love.

Manners make often fortunes.

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

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

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.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Better the last smile than the first laughter.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

Never meet trouble half-way.

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

Misery loves company.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

Guilt is always jealous

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

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