A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
- Francis Bacon Quote
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon Quote
A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Acorns were good until bread was found.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Francis Bacon Quote
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the Infinite.
- Francis Bacon Quote
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
- Francis Bacon Quote
For also knowledge itself is power.
- Francis Bacon Quote
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Friends are thieves of time.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
- Francis Bacon Quote
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.
- Francis Bacon Quote
God's first creature, which was light.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
- Francis Bacon Quote
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.
- Francis Bacon Quote
He that hath knowledge spareth his words.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
- Francis Bacon Quote
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- Francis Bacon Quote
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 Quote
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
- Francis Bacon Quote
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
- Francis Bacon Quote
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- Francis Bacon Quote
If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon Quote
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
- Francis Bacon Quote
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
- Francis Bacon Quote
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.
- Francis Bacon Quote
It is natural to die as to be born.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Opportunity makes a thief.
- Francis Bacon Quote
People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.
- Francis Bacon Quote
People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Silence is the virtue of fools.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The way of fortune is like the milkyway in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The worst men often give the best advice.
- Francis Bacon Quote
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
- Francis Bacon Quote
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.
- Francis Bacon Quote
There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible.
- Francis Bacon Quote
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon Quote
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
- Francis Bacon Quote
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
- Francis Bacon Quote
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon Quote
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
- Francis Bacon Quote
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
- Francis Bacon Quote
