John Ray Quotes

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• Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
• Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
• The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
• Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
• In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
• Never meet trouble half-way.
• He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
• Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.
• 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…
• The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
• They love too much that die for love.
• He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
• In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
• Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
• Misery loves company.
• Guilt is always jealous
• Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
• A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
• Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
• Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

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