Top 65 John Ray Quotes
#1. I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
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#2. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
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#3. Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
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#4. The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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#5. When friends meet, hearts warm.
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#6. Where love fails we espy all faults.
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#8. He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
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#9. The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
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#10. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
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#11. A maid that laughs is half taken.
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#12. They that make laws must not break them.
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#13. Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
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#14. Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
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#15. The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
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#16. 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.
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#17. He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
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#18. Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
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#19. To those we love best we say the least
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#20. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
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#21. 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.
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#22. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
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#23. 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.
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#24. In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
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#25. To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
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#26. The tree falls not at the first stroke.
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#27. Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
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#28. Spend and be free, but make no waste.
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#29. A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
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#30. A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.
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#31. He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
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#32. Never meet trouble half-way.
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#33. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
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#35. Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
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#36. Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
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#37. The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
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#38. He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
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#39. The younger brother hath the more wit.
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#40. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.
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#41. In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
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#42. Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
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#43. An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
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#44. A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
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#45. After a Christmas comes a Lent.
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#46. He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
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#47. Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
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#48. Manners make often fortunes.
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#49. Every man praises his own wares.
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#50. He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
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#51. A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
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#52. If the first of July be rainy weather,
It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
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#53. Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
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#54. The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
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#55. That which is evil is soon learned.
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#56. Good words cool more than cold water.
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#57. Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
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#58. He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
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#59. Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
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#60. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
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#61. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
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#62. They love too much that die for love.
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#63. 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.
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#64. He that buys land buys many stones,
He that buys flesh buys many bones,
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
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#65. Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
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