Francis Bacon Quotes

Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

Francis Bacon

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• Don't let the Disney princess hair fool you.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Hair
  • Fool
  • Disney

• When I was much younger, I sometimes felt rejected by feminists because of an image that I sold because it paid the bills. Any fool could tell my hair is dyed.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • Hair
  • Sometimes
  • Fool

• The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • May
  • Wisdom
  • Doubt

• Even now, at 82 years old, if I don't learn something every day, you know what I think? It's a day lost. Now, I don't practice every day. I just take the guitar, swear at it. But I should be swearing at myself. But I fool with music. I'm doing something musically all the time. And my ears are wide open for anything I can hear.

  

  B. B. King
  • Time
  • Music
  • Lost

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Courage
  • Fool
  • Intelligent

• One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk purse out of your wife's ear.

  

  J. B. Morton
  • May
  • Wife
  • Moment

• Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Proud
  • Risk

• There's a thin line between catering to the masses and making a fool of yourself; I try to walk that line.

  

  Samantha Ruth Prabhu
  • Yourself
  • Fool
  • Walk

• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Love
  • Wise
  • Fool

• If your character is just out there acting a fool, viewers are gonna say, 'Why am I watching this?' But if he's whispering, 'I don't really want to die,' there's a level of vulnerability cemented in these bad characters.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Why
  • Character
  • Bad

• You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Time
  • Fool

• The 'good' mother, with her fixed smile, her rigidity, her goody-goody outlook, her obsession with unnecessary hygiene, is in fact a fool. It is the 'bad' mother, unafraid of a joke and a glass of wine, richly self-expressive, scornful of suburban values, who is, in reality, good.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Mother

• Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Genius
  • Fortune
  • Companion

• I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, I love to fool you a third time. And just when you think it's all over, I have what I call that Carrie hand-out-of-the-grave moment. Just when you think it's all over, I'm going to hit you with just one more. I can't help myself.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Time
  • Help
  • Think

• A man is a golden impossibility. The line he must walk is a hair's breadth. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Wisdom
  • Hair
  • Wise

• Does the damned fool want to be blown up? Well, blow him up then. Give him hell, Captain Morton- as hot as you've got it, too.

  

  Nathan Bedford Forrest
  • Up
  • Fool
  • Blow

• No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be;Am an attendant lord, one that will doTo swell a progress, start a scene or two,Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool,Deferential, glad to be of use,Politic, cautious, and meticulous;Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse;At times, indeed, almost ridiculous - Almost, at times, the Fool.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • High
  • Doubt
  • Progress

• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Long
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Men
  • Women
  • Children

• Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Friend
  • Marry
  • Darling

• I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.

  

  Andy Summers The Police

• Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Home

• Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fool
  • Fortune
  • Darling