Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by John Ray - Page 2

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English environmentalist John Ray.
Last updated on November 5, 2024.
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
That which is evil is soon learned.
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one — © John Ray
He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one
After a Christmas comes a Lent.
Manners make often fortunes.
One means very effectual for the preservation of health is a quiet and cheerful mind, not afflicted with violent passions or distracted with immoderate cares.
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.
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
Every man praises his own wares.
A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.
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.
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be. — © John Ray
A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.
Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
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