A Quote by John Ray

Wedlock is a padlock.

John Ray

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Wedlock

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John Ray
English - Environmentalist
November 29, 1627 - January 17, 1705

I'll never forget what a Catholic priest told me; he said, "If you try to padlock the door, you have to give people an alternative path - an alternative, safer path. You can't padlock, and you shouldn't padlock a burning building."

Jeh Johnson

You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.

Myles Horton

One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.

Edward Thomson

Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.

Jerry A. Coyne

Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.

Rumi

Maternity bras are the Alcatraz under-wear. If they were a door they'd have a mortise lock, a padlock and the rest.

Mel Giedroyc

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

Noel Fisher

The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!

Jennifer Rardin

To say to a country that it shouldn't export its gas is like saying, 'Look, the only way we can defeat hunger is to put a padlock on the refrigerator.'