Francis Bacon Quotes

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Francis Bacon

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• If only Queen Elizabeth II had the intellectual, political and linguistic skills of Queen Elizabeth I, many people would support giving her some of the powers of an elected president.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • People
  • Political
  • Giving

• I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.

  

  Sally Field
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Fighting

• I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Business
  • Success

• Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Life
  • Character
  • Bad

• When I cook certain dishes, I smell my grandmother's kitchen, my grandmother's smells. I thought, 'What a wonderful way to tell a story.'

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Thought
  • Story
  • Grandmother

• I'd always had the concern that being in commercials would affect my credibility when I was getting started as a TV and film actor.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Always
  • Getting Started

• I love being around my mom and my dad.

  

  Maddie Hasson
  • Love
  • Dad
  • Mom

• More than a victim, I am a survivor of a dehumanization process.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Process
  • Victim
  • Survivor

• The only weights I lift are my dogs.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Fitness
  • Dogs
  • Lift

• Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression.

  

  Isaac Bashevis Singer
  • Art
  • Vision
  • Expression

• Fish cakes are perceived as being quite British, and they're always a bit brown and a little dull.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Always
  • Fish
  • Brown

• We were created to look at one another, weren't we.

  

  Edgar Degas

• Last night I was east with them And west within Trying to be for you what you wanna see.

  

  Ben Folds
  • Trying
  • Night

• I always kept myself fairly fit.

  

  Joel Edgerton

• Most talk about 'super-geniuses' is nonsense. I have found that when 'stars' drop out, successors are usually at hand to fill their places, and the successors are merely men who have learned by application and self-discipline to get full production from an average, normal brain.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Men
  • Hand
  • Brain

• Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.

  

  Anne Campbell
  • People
  • Value

• To be diagnosed with cancer was a frightening thing, and my first reaction was sheer panic, but I was really fortunate that the cancer was caught at such an early stage that I didn't need chemo or radiotherapy. But I know that cancer is a chronic condition, and once you've had it, you're on the list, because it can come back.

  

  Marianne Faithfull
  • Cancer

• Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

  

  James Howell
  • People
  • May
  • Proverbs

• If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to lead. Let us remember that the Bible contains two proverbs we cannot afford to forget. The first is ""Man does not live by bread alone"" and the second is ""Where there is no vision, the people perish.""

  

  Charles Luckman
  • People
  • Live
  • Remember

• The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass. About every weak point in human nature, or vicious spot in human life, there is deposited a crystallization of warning and protective proverbs.

  

  William R. Alger
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Feeling

• You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• I know that you are a stone, you do not cause benefit or harm; and if it were not that I had seen Allâh’s Messenger (Sallallahu 'Alaihi Wa Sallam) kiss you, I would never have kissed you.

  

  Umar
  • Kiss
  • Benefits
  • Kissing

• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Proverbs