John Ray Quotations

Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.

Nothing is invented and perfected at the same time.

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

I wish I could come back tomorrow. I want to see only a fair increase in these prices, ... long range transportation plan and inventory update.

If we can get that partnership between a scientist at (the University of Miami) and somebody out of Boston, then we've started a linkage. We've made a lot of sales calls here, but this is really a research-collaboration trip.

Scripps is not going to agree to a contract at all costs. It's a partnership, and the two parties need to figure out a way both sides are successful. They need to keep their eyes on the prize: long-term job creation and breakthrough drug discovery.

Just to hear that baby hollering and crying, that was the thing.

True luck consists not in holding the best of the cards at the table; luckiest he who knows just when to rise and go home

These settlements represent the latest in a series of achievements aimed at resolving significant claims in Enron's bankruptcy proceedings. We are pleased that these settlements enable us to collect additional value for the creditors, and, at the same time, resolve claims against the estate so that we can accelerate distributions to all creditors.

It was all flames. There was a fire coming out of the window here, all at the top here ... And right when you go through the front door, where the bookshelf was, there was a bunch of fire there, too.

I'm surprised by the level of homophobia ? bias against gays and lesbians ? there is on campus.

I heard the hollering, I got up and I ran around there and she says 'the baby,' so I hear the baby hollering as I run around the side of the house here. I tried to save the baby but it was too much smoke and it was hot in there.

The dad was running and trying to get the baby, so he had burns on his hands.

This is our opportunity to get back to the community and the island, and hopefully to encourage those young doctors to come back to Guam, ... We are getting older and are going to be tired one of these days. We've got to look for our replacements and prepare for the future.

A joy that's shared is a joy made double.

He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.

There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

Where love fails we espy all faults.

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

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

The honester the man, the worse luck.

They love too much that die for love.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.

To those we love best we say the least

Good words cool more than cold water.

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.

I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.

They that make laws must not break them.

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.

The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.

Wedlock is a padlock.

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.

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

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.

Never meet trouble half-way.

He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.

Global warming has taken the place of Communism as an absurdity that 'liberals' will defend to the death regardless of the evidence showing its folly.

A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as to persuade himself, that this most beautiful and adorned world was or could be produced by the fortuitous concourse of atoms.

The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

In a calm sea every man is a pilot.

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

Little children, little sorrows; big children, big sorrows.

A pound of worry won't pay an ounce of debt.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

Manners make often fortunes.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

A child may have too much of his mother's blessing.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

An ass is beautiful to an ass, and a pig is beautiful to a pig.

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.

A maid that laughs is half taken.

A light-heel'd mother makes a heavy-heel'd daughter.

That which is evil is soon learned.

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.

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

When friends meet, hearts warm.

He that cannot abide a bad market, deserves not a good one

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.

Every man praises his own wares.

The tree falls not at the first stroke.

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.

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.

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.

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

A spaniel, a woman, and a walnut tree, the more they're beaten the better they be.

Lean liberty is better than fat slavery

Guilt is always jealous

Misery loves company.

Pray devoutly, but hammer stoutly.

Better the last smile than the first laughter.

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

Fish must swim thrice--once is the water, a second time in the sauce, and a third time in wine in the stomach.

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Algebra is the metaphysics of arithmetic.

After a Christmas comes a Lent.

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

Spend and be free, but make no waste.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Every animal is providentially directed to the use of its proper weapon.

Man does what he can, and God what he will.

I tried to go in there but couldn't. It was real dark and smoky, and it just knocked be back out. I had to come back out.

It will be a good effort, and I think it will be good as far as the City of Borger, showing our support and going to them.