John Ray Quotes

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

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.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

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

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

The younger brother hath the more wit.

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

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

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

Guilt is always jealous

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

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

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

To those we love best we say the least

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

Good words cool more than cold water.

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

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

They love too much that die for love.

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

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

Never meet trouble half-way.

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

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

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

Many without punishment, none without sin.

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

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

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

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

Wedlock is a padlock.

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

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

Manners make often fortunes.

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

They that make laws must not break them.

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

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

That which is evil is soon learned.

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.

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.

A maid that laughs is half taken.

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

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

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

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.