John Ray Quotes
- 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…
- To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
- I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
- They that make laws must not break them.
- 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…
- The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
- Wedlock is a padlock.
- Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
- He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
- Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
- Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
- Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
- Where love fails we espy all faults.
- He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
- Every man praises his own wares.
- The tree falls not at the first stroke.
- He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
- Many without punishment, none without sin.
- Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
- 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…