John Ray Quotes

Botanist

John Ray, born on November 29, 1627, and died on January 17, 1705, was a renowned British botanist and naturalist. He made significant contributions to the development of botanical taxonomy.

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Famous John Ray Quotes

“Better the last smile than the first laughter.”

Firsts Lasts Laughter

Book:A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index; in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

Source: A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising an Entire Republication of Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index; in which are Introduced Large Additions, as Well of Proverbs as of Sayings, Sentences, Maxims, and Phrases

“The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.”

Firsts Heart Lasts Death Dies

Book:The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc

Source: The Wisdom of God manifested in the Works of the Creation, etc

“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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Book:The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation

Source: The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation