Inspiring Quotes by Francis Bacon - Page 2

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"Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter"

"Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men"

"By indignities men come to dignities"

"But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on"

"Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite"

"As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time"

"It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about"

"Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid"

"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"

"Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable"

"A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open"

"Rebellions of the belly are the worst"

"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"

"Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business"

"Knowledge is power"

"Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out"

"He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief"

"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses"

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator"

"They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils"

"The place of justice is a hallowed place"

"This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well"

"The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears"

"Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws"

"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"

"Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible"

"A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion"

"A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner"

"A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green"

"Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul"

"When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative"

"There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self"

"We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do"

"Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set"

"The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses"

"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors"

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability"

"Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience"

"The worst solitude is to have no real friendships"

"Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice"

"Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing"

"Silence is the virtue of fools"

"Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt"

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is"

"If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us"

"If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world"

"God's first creature, which was light"

"God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave"

"In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior"

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other"

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