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Francis Bacon quotes, quotations, sayings

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself.
Charles De Gaulle
 1007    
All colors will agree in the dark.
Francis Bacon
 1006    
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Francis Bacon
 1005    
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
Francis Bacon
 1005    
I have tried to lift France out of the mud. But she will return to her errors and vomitings. I cannot prevent the French from being French.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest of life consisted in one day rendering her some signal service and that I would have the occasion to do so.
Charles De Gaulle
 1005    
Does this boat go to Europe, France?
Anita Loos
 1004    
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Mark Twain
 1004    
France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
Mark Twain
 1004    
A dance is a measured pace, as a verse is a measured speech.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
In Plato's opinion, man was made for philosophy; in Bacon's opinion, philosophy was made for man.
Thomas B. Macaulay
 1004    
San Francisco, n.: Marcel Proust editing an issue of Penthouse.
 1004    
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
When a traveller returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath travelled altogether behind him.
Francis Bacon, 1597-1625
 1004    
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
You know, there's three essentials to life: money, bacon, and sex. And you know what? I've only got one out of three.
 1004    
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Gives us ham and pork and Bacon. Let others think his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash
 1004    
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
The Pig, if I am not mistaken, Supplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon. Let others say his heart is big, I think it stupid of the Pig.
Ogden Nash, 'The Pig'
 1004    
Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
If my theory of relativity proves to be correct, Germany will claim me a German, and France will claim me a citizen of the world. However, if it proves wrong, France will say I
Albert Einstein
 1004    
Never exaggerate your faults. Your friends will attend to that.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
I know not, sir whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.
J.M. Barrie
 1004    
Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.
William Shakespeare
 1004    
Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
I would live to study, and not study to live.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
Francis Bacon
 1004    
In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is.
Geoffrey Cottrell
 1004    
There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.
Francis Bacon
 1004    


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