John Ray Quotes

A multitude of words doth rather obscure than illustrate, they being a burden to the memory, and the first apt to be forgotten, before we come to the last. So that he that uses many words for the explaining of any subject, doth, like the cuttle-fish, hide himself, for the most part, in his own ink. Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic. He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain. The tree falls not at the first stroke. Every man praises his own wares. He who pays the piper can call the tunes. Where love fails we espy all faults. Feather by feather the goose is plucked. Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves. Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please. He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth. They that make laws must not break them. Who depends on another man's table often dines late. Wedlock is a padlock. The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant. My personal credo as a libertarian conservative: I think all attempts to reform your fellow-citizens or tell them how to live their lives are arrogant and tyrannical. THAT'S why I oppose Leftism. I want people to be free to manage their own lives. Reform is just authoritarianism. People are not playthings for anybody's theories or obsessions. That which is evil is soon learned. A maid that laughs is half taken. He that buys land buys many stones,<br /> He that buys flesh buys many bones, <br /> He that buys eggs buys many shells, <br /> But he that buys good ale buys nothing else. An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig. To those we love best we say the least Man does what he can, and God what he will. Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows. In a calm sea every man is a pilot. He dances well to whom Fortune pipes. I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee. To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone. They love too much that die for love. A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter. 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.