Francis Bacon Quotes

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Francis Bacon

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• Humans are insane. We kill our own people, starve our own people, sell them, work them to death, beat them, don't give them affordable/free/good healthcare, and let them live in misery, while a few of us have - we have all we want. We are evil.

  

  Faith Hunter
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I've never abandoned the novel.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Never
  • Novel
  • Abandoned

• At the simplest level, economics can better show us the consequences of our actions. Less simple are cases in which we don't have the knowledge to predict the full consequences. Global warming and climate change are examples.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Knowledge
  • Change
  • Simple

• I take the family shopping round. The markets of the world.

  

  Edgar Guest
  • World
  • Family
  • Shopping

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• She's anything but typical;She's so unpredictable.Oh but even at her worst it ain't that bad.She's as real as real can beAnd she's every fantasy.Lord she's every lover that I've ever had.And she's every lover that I've never had.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Real
  • She
  • Bad

• A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. He is like the lower end of a suspended chain; you can sway him slightly to the right or the left, but remove your hand and he falls into line with the other links.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Work
  • Hand

• I want to get into voice-overs.

  

  Carnie Wilson Wilson Phillips

• I never thought I would model for more than a few years.

  

  Christy Turlington
  • Model

• The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free.

  

  James Dyson
  • Free

• I prefer to create friction. Because if you're not pushing buttons, you're just making something pleasant; it's probably been done before, and it's not making anyone feel anything.

  

  Aubrie Sellers
  • Done

• Policymakers have to make judgments based on the best intelligence they get.

  

  Frank Carlucci

• I had a respected SF writer call me 'girlie' and demand that I get him a coffee, before the panel we were on together.

  

  Ann Aguirre
  • Together
  • Coffee

• Warner Brothers had to hire [a stunt double] and no one thought a child could do this. Billy Friedkin came to me before we were filming [The Exorcist] and said ,if you do not do all of this film, the film will be a joke.It's why they stripped the makeup down to the bare minimum, a piece on my chin, piece across my mouth that disfigured my mouth. You have scars here. Take away my eyebrows. It was my real hair. Shampoo was put in it that dried.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Real
  • Why
  • Hair

• If you're from New Jersey, let people make all those bad jokes about our state. Don't let anyone know how great it is here. It's the best kept secret.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Great
  • Bad

• I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

  

  Hadiqa Kiani
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• Back to school, to prove to Dad that I'm not a fool.

  

  Adam Sandler
  • School
  • Dad
  • Fool

• Innovation is all about people. Innovation thrives when the population is diverse, accepting and willing to cooperate.

  

  Vivek Wadhwa
  • People
  • Innovation
  • Accepting

• Relationships have always seemed very mysterious, and therefore worth exploring. I’m single, so it’s still kind of a mystery - a worthwhile mystery, one that I want to be on the scent of. I’m not lonely, and I think that has a lot to do with what’s on my bedside table rather than what’s in my bed.

  

  Michelle Williams Destiny's Child
  • Thinking
  • Kind
  • Lonely

• A large, branching, aged oak is perhaps the most venerable of all inanimate objects.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Objects
  • Oaks

• My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Protection
  • Qualities
  • Occasion

• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Riches
  • Fever

• Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Riches
  • Occasion
  • Good Actions