John Ray Quotes

When friends meet, hearts warm.

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

Misery loves company.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

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

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

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

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

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

Every man praises his own wares.

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

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

After a Christmas comes a Lent.

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.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

Better the last smile than the first laughter.