Francis Bacon Quotes

For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.

Francis Bacon

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• I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.

  

  K. A. Applegate
  • Real
  • Think
  • Care

• Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Wife
  • Soup
  • Sharing

• Salesmen always need something to sell.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Need
  • Something
  • Sell

• Greetings and death to our enemies.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Death
  • Enemies
  • Our

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• I have a garden, and I collect different heirloom seeds from different neighbors.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Different
  • Garden
  • Neighbors

• My parents found what I was interested in and encouraged me. They didn't put me in front of a television and buy lots of toys, the way some American parents do.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Parents
  • Way
  • Interested

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• Race and class are extremely reliable indicators as to where one might find the good stuff, like parks and trees, and where one might find the bad stuff, like power plants and waste facilities.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Good
  • Power
  • Bad

• I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.

  

  Adam Driver
  • More
  • I Can
  • Strengths

• The first job of a writer is to be honest.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Job
  • First
  • Writer

• I have always marched to my own beat, and most frequently, it was inconsistent not only with my own immediate family, but with my culture as well.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Family
  • Culture
  • Always

• 'It's a Wonderful Life' was a mainstream Hollywood movie about faith, redemption, religion, and it was rated G.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Life
  • Movie
  • Faith

• I am a normal guy.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • Guy
  • Normal

• I took the longest showers of my life after every time I visited Gramacho. It affects the personality of the catadores. They always dress really well, they're very sharp, and when they go out they always wear a lot of perfume because they're very conscious of the possibility of having the smell.

  

  Vik Muniz
  • Life
  • Time
  • Personality

• My plays have been strange from the beginning, and they never got unstrange.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Beginning
  • Never
  • Strange

• I took a plane from New York City to Los Angeles for an audition. I met all the people. After that, I was told to have another audition, but I didn't want to go there again.

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • People
  • City
  • New York

• Dread not events unknown, and be not downhearted, for the fountain of the water of life is involved in obscurity.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Life
  • Future
  • Water

• In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable.

  

  Sigmund Freud
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Religion

• Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Really
  • Comfortable

• I have some amazing fans! They're just so dedicated and so nice and so sweet. I'm, like, no one and I'm just starting out, and these people appreciate your work and it's nice to hear that.

  

  A. J. Cook
  • People
  • Work
  • Nice

• The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.

  

  Geoffrey Beene
  • Fashion
  • Paris

• For man seeketh in society comfort, use, and protection: and they be three wisdoms of divers natures, which do often sever: wisdom of the behaviour, wisdom of business, and wisdom of state.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Business
  • Society
  • Wisdom