John Ray Quotes

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Whatever may be said for ye Antiquity of the Earth itself and bodies lodged in it ye race of mankind is new.

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The best physicians are Dr. Diet, Dr. Quiet, and Dr. Merryman.

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

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He speaks Bear-garden.<br That is, such rude and uncivil, or sordid and dirty language, as the rabble that frequent those sports, are wont to use.

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Cheese it is a peevish elf
It digests all things but itself.

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He that useth many Words for the explaining any Subject, doth, like the Cuttle-Fish, hide himself; for the most part, in his own Ink.

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If physic do not work, prepare for the kirk.

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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.

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With respect to gout, the physician is a lout.

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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.

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

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If wishes were horses, beggars might ride.

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

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I cannot but look upon the strange Instinct of this noisome and troublesome Creature a Louse, of searching out foul and nasty Clothes to harbor and breed in, as an Effect of divine Providence, design'd to deter Men and Women from Sluttishness and Sordidness.

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If wishes were butter-cakes, beggars might bite.
If wishes were thrushes, beggars would eat birds.
If wishes would bide, beggars would ride.

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A suit of law and an urinal brings a man to the hospital.

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Prate us but prade; it's money buys land
Money begets money.

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Money and friendship bribe justice.
Beauty is potent, but money is omnipotent.

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Like blood, like good, and like agen make the happiest marriage.

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When the head aches all the body is the worse.

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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.

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

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Apothecaries would not give pills in sugar unless they were bitter.

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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.

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