Quote

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.

John Ray

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

John Ray
Age: 77 †
Born: 1627
Born: November 29
Died: 1705
Died: January 17
Botanist
Bryologist
Naturalist
Ornithologist
Theologian
Zoologist
Black Notley
Essex
John Wray
Ray
Land
Else
Ale
Nothing
Buys
Many
Shells
Good
Eggs
Bones
Flesh
Stones

More quotes by John Ray

Image
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
John Ray
Image
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
John Ray
Image
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
John Ray
Image
If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.
John Ray
Image
Little children, little sorrows big children, big sorrows.
John Ray
Image
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
Image
Man does what he can, and God what he will.
John Ray
Image
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.
John Ray
Image
In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.
John Ray
Image
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
John Ray
Image
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.
John Ray
Image
That which is evil is soon learned.
John Ray
Image
They love too much that die for love.
John Ray
Image
ndustry is Fortune's right hand, and Frugality her left.
John Ray
Image
The tree falls not at the first stroke.
John Ray
Image
I love thee like puddings if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
John Ray
Image
If the first of July it be rainy weather, 'Twill rain more or less for four weeks together.
John Ray
Image
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.
John Ray
Image
He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
John Ray
Image
He is wise that can make a friend of a foe.
John Ray