Francis Bacon Quotes
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Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things.
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The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
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Great changes are easier than small ones.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.
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It's not what we profess but what we practice that gives us integrity.
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There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances.
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The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
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No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the true exercise.
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The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
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There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
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Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
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There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise.
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Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment and betterment of man's life.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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What then remains but that we still should cry Not to be born, or, being born, to die?
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Time is the greatest innovator.
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
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Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
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Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain.
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There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind.
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A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object.