Quotations by Francis Bacon
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Born: Saturday, January 21, 1561 Died: Thursday, April 9, 1626 (65 years old) Profession: Philosopher Nationality: English
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Life) A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Religion, Men, Atheism, Man, Mind, Philosophy) A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Opportunity, Man) A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Man, Revenge, Wounds) A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Wisdom, Question) A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Man, Open, Question) A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Man, Will) Acorns were good until bread was found. - Francis Bacon Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Age, Trust, Friends, Old, Wine, Wood) Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Anger, Men, Poor, Witty) Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: History, Time, Shipwreck) As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Time, First, Living) Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Beauty, Infinite) But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Life, Men, God, Angels, Man, Theatre) By indignities men come to dignities. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Men) Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Men, Merit, Public) Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Children) Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Life, Habit, Will) Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Discretion, Eloquence, Order, Speech, Words) Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Fame, Light) Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Art, Fashion, Living) For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Men, Memory, Name, Nations) Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Thought, Reason, Will) Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Fortune, Will) Friends are thieves of time. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Time, Friends) Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Friendship) God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: God, First, Garden) God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: God) God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: God, Exercise, Grave, Intellect, Limits) God's first creature, which was light. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: God, First, Light) Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Fame, Fire, May, Will) He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Advice, Example) He that hath knowledge spareth his words. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Knowledge, Words) He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Wife, Virtue, Children, Fortune) He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Time, Remedies, Will) Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Hope) Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Houses) I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Death, Man) I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Mind) I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Age, Man, Old, Will, Years) If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Man, Strangers, World) If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Content, End, Man, Will) If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Man, Mathematics, Study, Wit) If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Justice, Will) Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Humor, Imagination, Man, Sense) In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Darkness, Light, Order, Present) In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Enemy, Man, Revenge) It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. - Francis Bacon (Keywords: Power, Desire, Liberty, Man, Self) It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. - Francis Bacon It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. - Francis Bacon
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