Top 70 John Ray Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”

— John Ray

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2. “Misery loves company.”

— John Ray

3. “When friends meet, hearts warm.”

— John Ray

4. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.”

— John Ray

5. “Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.”

— John Ray

6. “A joy that’s shared is a joy made double.”

— John Ray

7. “In a calm sea every man is a pilot.”

— John Ray

8. “Many without punishment, none without sin.”

— John Ray

9. “Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.”

— John Ray

10. “He who pays the piper can call the tunes.”

— John Ray

11. “Good words cool more than cold water.”

— John Ray

12. “A pound of worry won’t pay an ounce of debt.”

— John Ray

13. “If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.”

— John Ray

14. “The tree falls not at the first stroke.”

— John Ray

15. “Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.”

— John Ray

16. “He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.”

— John Ray

17. “To those we love best we say the least.”

— John Ray

18. “The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.”

— John Ray

19. “Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.”

— John Ray

20. “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

21. “The wind in a man’s face makes him wise.”

— John Ray

22. “Better the last smile than the first laughter.”

— John Ray

23. “Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.”

— John Ray

24. “The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.”

— John Ray

25. “A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they’re beaten the better they be.”

— John Ray

26. “Children pick up words as pigeons peas And utter them again as God shall please.”

— John Ray

27. “Feather by feather the goose is plucked.”

— John Ray

28. “Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.”

— John Ray

29. “The honester the man, the worse luck.”

— John Ray

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30. “That which is evil is soon learned.”

— John Ray

31. “He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.”

— John Ray

32. “Diseases are the tax on pleasures.”

— John Ray

33. “It is a foolish sheep that makes the wolf his counselor.”

— John Ray

34. “Lean liberty is better than fat slavery.”

— John Ray

35. “I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I’d eat thee.”

— John Ray

36. “An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.”

— John Ray

37. “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

38. “Where love fails we espy all faults.”

— John Ray

39. “A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.”

— John Ray

40. “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

41. “Who depends on another man’s table often dines late.”

— John Ray

42. “Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.”

— John Ray

43. “In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.”

— John Ray

44. “Never meet trouble half-way.”

— John Ray

45. “A light-heel’d mother makes a heavy-heel’d daughter.”

— John Ray

46. “The younger brother hath the more wit.”

— John Ray

47. “A maid that laughs is half taken.”

— John Ray

48. “He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one.”

— John Ray

49. “Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.”

— John Ray

50. “He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.”

— John Ray