Francis Bacon Quotes
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.Francis Bacon
Quotes to Explore
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
Any child knows that history can only be a reduced representation of reality, but it must be a true one, not distorted by queer lenses.
Samuel E. Morison -
I will sign pro life bills. But what people are interested in is what we can do to create jobs, grow the economy, and keep our costs under control.
Sam Brownback -
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
Barney Frank -
I think there are a lot more important things than art in the world. But not to me.
A. S. Byatt
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Everyone is going to have to step up to the plate.
Warren Rudman -
A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.
Samuel Johnson -
In the past, people worked together only when some great disaster threatened.
Walter Ulbricht -
I am upset and completely disappointed in the government, the millionaires and billionaires in the U.S. See what's happening to the country? Look at all the health problems, the economy, the recession and crime.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi -
I live for the text. It's my job.
Ian Mckellen -
A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love.
Kara Swisher
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I consider myself a fairly ethical individual while I do have a lot of dichotomies within me. We're all victims of our own hypocrisy at times.
T. J. Miller -
It's important to give a better country to your children, but it is more important to give better children to your country.
Carlos Slim -
I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.
R. Kelly -
I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
I was never for Richard Nixon until Watergate.
M. Stanton Evans -
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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The commander's talents are given greatest scope in rough hilly country. Mountains allow him too little real command over his scattered units and he is unable to control them all; in open country, control is a simple matter and does not test his ability to the fullest.
Carl von Clausewitz -
With both Caddyshack and Vacation, it's not like the subjects were serious enough that they engaged my interest for another round. I love the characters, and the actors were great, but I didn't see the need to make another Vacation movie.
Harold Ramis -
Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.
Kurt Vonnegut -
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?
S. M. Stirling -
I think the song itself, 'Smoke and Fire,' is just a metaphor for the feelings that you feel in a relationship.
Sabrina Carpenter -
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon