Francis Bacon Quotes

The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

Francis Bacon

• Life
• Man
• Comedies
• Tragedies
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• I am a hopeless romantic and I love to spoil my girlfriends.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Love
  • Romantic
  • For Him

• Well what I will tell you is for this movie, I got into probably the best shape of my life.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Best

• The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above.

  

  Fanny Crosby
  • Love
  • Child
  • Angel

• I always separated sports and my personal life.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Life
  • Always
  • Sports

• There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

  

  Vash Young
  • Life
  • Victory
  • Achievement

• I love sparkly eyes for the holidays, especially New Year's Eve.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Eyes
  • I Love
  • Holidays

• In life, sometimes you just lose.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Life
  • Sometimes
  • Lose

• It has been said that love is a function of communication. I believe that to be true. I believe, by extension, that human understanding is a function of communication. And the better human beings understand one another, the higher the level of functioning.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• You understand, in my life, the only other person I spoke with or speak with more than Prince is my mother.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Mother
  • My Life

• You're not sick you're just in love.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Love
  • Sick
  • For Her

• Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • People
  • Life
  • Jail

• I want to have fun. It's a beautiful life. You learn, you win, you lose, but you get up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.

  

  Candice Bergen
  • Life
  • Mom
  • Daughter

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Life
  • Years
  • Insurance

• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Truth

• If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Race
  • Brotherhood

• The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Good
  • True
  • Man

• When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?

  

  Jewel Kilcher
  • Work
  • Great
  • Children

• I just live one day at a time.

  

  Rick James
  • Time
  • Live

• I sing around the house, in the shower.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • House
  • Sing
  • Shower

• No, I haven't asked for a guy's number, but I've always wanted to.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Guy
  • Always
  • Wanted

• The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Life
  • Man
  • Comedies