John Ray Quotes - Page 3

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.

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

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

He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.

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.

In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.

He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.

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

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

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

If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

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.

To go like a cat upon a hot bakestone.

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

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

They that make laws must not break them.

Misery loves company.

Guilt is always jealous

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

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

Manners make often fortunes.

Every man praises his own wares.

That which is evil is soon learned.

After a Christmas comes a Lent.