Francis Bacon Quotes

Francis Bacon: Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue. | Citatis

Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.

Francis Bacon

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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.

Jack Nicholson
- People
- Life
- Celebrity
When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.

Randy Houser
You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.

Nastia Liukin
- You
- Know
- Person
Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

Salvatore Quasimodo
- Man
- Religious
- Poetry
Finally we are a nation with some conscience. It means alliances are extremely important when they're based on a national interest. We have to have the ability to sustain our presence within those alliances.

Malcolm Wallop
No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.

Edgar Degas
- Great
- Art
- Study