Top 93 John Ray Quotes
#1. An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.
John Ray
#2. A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
John Ray
#3. He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
John Ray
#4. Every man praises his own wares.
John Ray
#5. Manners make often fortunes.
John Ray
#6. Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
John Ray
#7. When an ensemble is really tight or playing as one, it's a transcendental experience. It is spiritual. It goes beyond the ensemble. Ray and I and Robby and Jim were pretty tight, musically and spiritually.
John Densmore
#8. He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
John Ray
#10. Ray Illingworth is relieving himself in front of the pavilion.
John Arlott
#11. After a Christmas comes a Lent.
John Ray
#12. A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
John Ray
#13. If the first of July be rainy weather,
It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
John Ray
#15. I am motivated by thoughts of my sorrowful little client and the screwing that he got. I'm the only lawyer Donny Ray has, and it will take much more than paper to slow me down.
John Grisham
#16. Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
John Ray
#17. Every breath of air and ray of light and heat, every beautiful prospect, is, as it were, the skirts of the (angel's) garments, the waving robes of those whose faces see God.
John Henry Newman
#18. In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
John Ray
#19. It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.
John Ray
#20. The younger brother hath the more wit.
John Ray
#21. He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
John Ray
#22. The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.
John Ray
#23. Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
John Ray
#24. Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.
John Ray
#25. There is no hope for television by means of cathode-ray tubes.
John Logie Baird
#26. Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
John Ray
#27. 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.
John Ray
#28. 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.
John Ray
#29. John Lennon was a musical genius. All I have to do is think of some of his songs and even the titles make me feel good ... and I'm not the only one. His music has crossed cultures and even generations.
Ray Comfort
#30. In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - John von Neumann
Ray Kurzweil
#31. They love too much that die for love.
John Ray
#32. What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
John Ray
#33. Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
John Ray
#34. Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
John Ray
#35. He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
John Ray
#36. As a scientist Miss [Rosalind] Franklin was distinguished by extreme clarity and perfection in everything she undertook. Her photographs are among the most beautiful X-ray photographs of any substance ever taken.
John Desmond Bernal
#37. At Pixar, we've been huge fans of any new technology that makes the viewer experience of our movies better. Blu-ray is the best yet because the picture quality, especially for our movies, is unbelievable.
John Lasseter
#38. Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
John Ray
#39. Good words cool more than cold water.
John Ray
#40. When I was able to go to school in my early years, my third grade teacher, Ms. Harris, convinced me that one day I would be a writer. I heard her, but I knew that I had to leave Georgia, and unlike my friend Ray Charles, I did not go around with 'Georgia on My Mind.'
John Henrik Clarke
#41. O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.
John Arbuthnot
#42. I played music practically my entire life. But the first time I ever really played music was with John and Robby and Jim That's where it happened. it was an epiphany, a moment of profound clarity
Ray Manzarek
#43. I always loved LeAnn Rimes and especially Clint Black for his soulfulness. As I've gotten older, my influences have broadened - John Mayer, Michael Buble, Stevie Wonder, Keith Urban, Stevie Ray Vaughn, the Beatles - all of these artists have somehow been a part of my development as a songwriter.
Hunter Hayes
#44. John was the ne'er-do-well father, Paul was the hardworking mother trying to keep everything together. George was a slightly surly teenager, and Ringo was this happy-go-lucky young kid with his model airplane. That's really how it was.
Ray Connolly
#45. That which is evil is soon learned.
John Ray
#46. The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
John Ray
#47. Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.
John Ray
#49. We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
Rachael Ray
#50. 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.
John Ray
#51. The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
John Ray
#52. Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
John Ray
#53. Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
John Ray
#54. They that make laws must not break them.
John Ray
#55. A maid that laughs is half taken.
John Ray
#56. A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
John Ray
#57. The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
John Ray
#58. He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
John Ray
#59. I just love westerns. One of my favourite actors is John Wayne, probably one of the most underrated actors there's ever been. He's quite an incredible actor.
Ray Winstone
#60. He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
John Ray
#61. I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.
Jim Otto
#62. John Terry wears his shirt on his sleeve
Ray Parlour
#63. Where love fails we espy all faults.
John Ray
#64. Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.
Saint John Chrysostom
#65. When friends meet, hearts warm.
John Ray
#66. The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
John Ray
#67. Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.
John Ray
#68. Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
#70. If you vote for Democrats, you might as well give Al Quaeda a death ray and a manual.
John Oliver
#71. To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
John Ray
#72. The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC.
John Lennon
#74. Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
John Ray
#75. Never meet trouble half-way.
John Ray
#76. He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
John Ray
#77. A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.
John Ray
#78. A joy that's shared is a joy made double.
John Ray
#79. Spend and be free, but make no waste.
John Ray
#80. Lean liberty is better than fat slavery
John Ray
#81. Askade took the battertoast, looked at it blearily. "I can't rewire it into a death ray without some extra parts," he said, and took a bite. "Hm. Tastes okay. What's the problem?
John M. Ford
#82. The tree falls not at the first stroke.
John Ray
#83. I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
John Ray
#84. Too many radiologists still believe there is a risk from a chest x-ray. Few radiologists can explain radiation to the patient in words the patient can understand.
John Cameron
#85. In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
John Ray
#86. 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.
John Ray
#87. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
John Ray
#88. 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.
John Ray
#89. Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.
John Ray
#90. To those we love best we say the least
John Ray
#91. Cathode-ray tubes are the most important items in a television receiver.
John Logie Baird
#92. Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.
John Ray
#93. Every time you throw a snail off the dock," Ray teased Homer Wells, "you're making someone start his whole life over."
"Maybe I'm doing him a favor," said Homer Wells, the orphan.
John Irving
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