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
philosophy philosophical men
Who depends on another man's table often dines late.
padlocks wedlock
Wedlock is a padlock.
party men ignorant
The Democratic Party: Con-men elected by the ignorant and the arrogant.
thinking people citizens
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.
law break
They that make laws must not break them.
love-is pie pudding
I love thee like puddings; if thou wert pie I'd eat thee.
running talking secret
A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.
water cold good-words
Good words cool more than cold water.
love-is those-we-love
To those we love best we say the least
wise education fool
Learning makes the wise wiser and the fool more foolish.
love neighbor love-thy-neighbor
Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.
cynical too-much dies
They love too much that die for love.
honesty men luck
The honester the man, the worse luck.
children mad parent
Children, when they are little, they make parents fools; when great, mad.