"True luck consists not in holding the best……" — John Ray
"True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home"
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51 Quotes by John Ray
John Ray has 51 quotes on this site.
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Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
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Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
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In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
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Never meet trouble half-way.
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He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in…
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Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of…
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
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The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
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They love too much that die for love.
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He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
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