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

• Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Money
  • Change
  • Door

• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Space
  • Relation
  • Milky Way

• You numb yourself so you're not terrified when you're on TV at 7 o'clock in the morning with Justin Bieber, who you just met a couple of days before, having to perform in front of millions of people.

  

  Halsey
  • People
  • Morning
  • Couple

• TORONTO -- When Cameron Crowe was flying to the Toronto film festival recently, he walked down the aisle of the plane and studied his fellow passengers sitting in front of their personal TV sets. They were just having the greatest time, there was so much joy in their eyes, .. And I looked to see what they were watching. And it was all out-and-out comedies. So many people watching The Longest Yard. And I just got the feeling that, 'You know what? People just like to let it all go, and have a laugh'.

  

  Cameron Crowe
  • People
  • Time
  • Feeling

• 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