John Ray
John Ray
John Raywas an English naturalist widely regarded as one of the earliest of the English parson-naturalists. Until 1670, he wrote his name as John Wray. From then on, he used 'Ray', after "having ascertained that such had been the practice of his family before him"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionEnvironmentalist
Date of Birth29 November 1627
men sea pilots
In a calm sea every man is a pilot.
ballet fortune wells
He dances well to whom Fortune pipes.
horse thinking poor-richard
The horse thinks one thing and he that rides him another
beautiful stupid men
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.
taken global-warming communism
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.
law pounds thousand
In a thousand pounds of law there is not an ounce of love.
writing ink use
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink.
way half trouble
Never meet trouble half-way.
summer rain july
If the first of July be rainy weather, It will rain, more of less, for four weeks together.
listeners eavesdropping
Listeners ne'er hear good of themselves.
power pay tunes
He who pays the piper can call the tunes.
geese feathers
Feather by feather the goose is plucked.
earth cost caution
He that counts all cost will never put plough in the earth.
cat tails higher
The more you rub a cat on the rump, the higher she sets her tail.