Francis Bacon Quotes
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Money is like muck, not good unless spread.
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In all superstition wise men follow fools.
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The place of justice is a hallowed place.
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A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
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My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.
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Men in great place are thrice servants,-servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business.
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The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
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It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.
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My Lord St. Albans said that Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high, and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
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The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction.
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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.
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
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Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
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Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
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Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?
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The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
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It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!
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Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.
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Audacter calumniare, semper aliquid haeret.
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A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.
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Art is man added to Nature.
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The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand.