Inspirational Quotes by John Ray (English Naturalist)

Guilt is always jealous.
—John Ray
Topics: One liners, Guilt

Diseases are the tax on pleasures.
—John Ray
Topics: Advice, Disease

A talkative person runs himself into great inconveniences by babbling out his own and other’s secrets.
—John Ray
Topics: Talking

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.
—John Ray
Topics: Money

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
Topics: Writing, Words

Never meet trouble half-way.
—John Ray
Topics: Anxiety, Trouble

Many without punishment, none without sin.
—John Ray
Topics: Punishment

Manners make often fortunes.
—John Ray
Topics: Manners

Two of a trade seldom agree.
—John Ray

They who scatter with one hand, gather with two, not always in coin, but in kind. Nothing multiplies so much as kindness.
—John Ray
Topics: Benevolence

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
—John Ray
Topics: Beauty

Industry is fortunes right hand, and frugality its left.
—John Ray
Topics: Work

The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
—John Ray
Topics: Charity

A child may have too much of his mother’s blessing.
—John Ray
Topics: Children