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Quotes from John Ray

Man does what he can, and God what he will.
~ John Ray
Adversity makes men wise but not rich.
~ John Ray
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
~ John Ray
Every man praises his own wares.
~ John Ray
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
Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
~ John Ray
A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.
~ John Ray
Who depends upon another man's table often dines late.
~ John Ray
Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.
~ John Ray
The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
~ John Ray
Good words cool more than cold water.
~ John Ray
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
~ John Ray
Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
~ John Ray
Better the last smile than the first laughter.
~ John Ray
Beauty is power a smile is its sword.
~ John Ray
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
~ John Ray
Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.
~ John Ray
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
~ John Ray
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
~ John Ray
Good words cool more than cold water.
~ John Ray
Industry is fortune's right hand, and frugality its left.
~ John Ray
He that uses many words for the explaining any subject doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
~ John Ray
Blood is thicker than water.
~ John Ray
Money begets money.
~ John Ray