Francis Bacon Quotes

The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

Francis Bacon

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• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• I had seen a Pfizer's pilot plant in 1965 and decided that, 'I'll build a Pfizer.' If not Pfizer, I have built Dr Reddy's, which is no less respectable.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Plant
  • Seen
  • Pilot

• Traveling is the ruin of all happiness! There's no looking at a building after seeing Italy.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Travel
  • Happiness
  • Building

• …Novello should be extremely grateful that his innubile daughter was being taken off his hands by a Tasca.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Taken
  • Daughter

• If life throws you a lemon - make lemonade.

  

  Joan Collins
  • Life

• I think Shakespeare, at his heart, was just the way all of us are that make movies: He wanted to entertain people.

  

  Kelly Asbury
  • People
  • Heart

• Structure your cross-training appropriately by alternating the intensity of your sessions so you work, recover, work, recover.

  

  Brett Hoebel
  • Work
  • Training

• I think I could have been quite difficult to fathom as a youngster, this kid who didn't talk about himself very much.

  

  Bob Brown

• I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Church
  • Firsts
  • Sadness

• The great ideals of liberty and equality are preserved against the assaults of opportunism, the expediency of the passing hour, the erosion of small encroachments, the scorn and derision of those who have no patience with general principles.

  

  Benjamin Cardozo
  • Great
  • Small
  • Liberty

• No one's serious at seventeen.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Serious
  • Seventeen

• Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Lies
  • Matter

• Your heavenly home was bought for a price, and that payment results in a title deed that can never be lost through foreclosure.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Home
  • Lost
  • Deeds

• Calamity was ordained for man.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Men
  • Calamity

• I'd like to go by climbing a birch tree and climb black branches up a snow-white trunk Toward heaven, till the tree could bear no more, But dipped its top and set me down again. That would be good both going and coming back. One could do worse than be a swinger of birches.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Up
  • Good
  • Black

• Religion in a magistrate strengthens his authority, because it procures veneration, and gains a reputation to it. In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

  

  John Tillotson
  • World
  • Reality
  • Religion

• In the next few years the struggle will not be between utopia and reality, but between different utopias, each trying to impose itself on reality ... we can no longer hope to save everything, but ... we can at least try to save lives, so that some kind of future, if perhaps not the ideal one, will remain possible.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Hope
  • Future
  • Reality

• I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable.

  

  Alfred Lansing
  • Writing
  • Opinions
  • Unprintable

• I love my work, and I feel fortunate to be doing a job I love, but it isn't the centre of my life.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• As, pricked out with less and greater lights, between the poles of the universe, the Milky Way so gleameth white as to set very sages questioning.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Universe
  • Lights
  • Milky Way

• The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Fortunate
  • Customs
  • Milky Way