Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
-- Francis Bacon
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
-- Francis Bacon
There is no excellent beauty that hath not
some strangeness in the proportion.
-- Francis Bacon
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
In charity there is no excess.
-- Francis Bacon
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for
counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. For the
experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth
them; but in new things, abuseth them. The errors of young men are the ruin
of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might
have been done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and management of
actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly
to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few
principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not how they innovate,
which draws unknown inconveniences; and, that which doubleth all errors, will
not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop
nor turn. 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. Certainly, it is good to
compound employments of both ... because the virtues of either age may correct
the defects of both.
-- Francis Bacon, "Essay on Youth and Age"
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
-- Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
-- Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
-- Francis Bacon
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-- Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would
heal and do well.
-- Francis Bacon
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits,
but not when it misses.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.
-- Francis Bacon
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
-- Francis Bacon
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire,
and it were but to roast their eggs.
-- Francis Bacon
The genius, wit, and spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
-- Francis Bacon
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for
counsel, fitter for new projects than settled business.
-- Francis Bacon
It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire,
and it were but to roast their eggs.
-- Francis Bacon
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see
nothing but sea.
-- Francis Bacon
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.
-- Francis Bacon
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for
counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business. For the
experience of age, in things that fall within the compass of it, directeth
them; but in new things, abuseth them. The errors of young men are the ruin
of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might
have been done, or sooner. Young men, in the conduct and management of
actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly
to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few
principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not how they innovate,
which draws unknown inconveniences; and, that which doubleth all errors, will
not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop
nor turn. 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. Certainly, it is good to
compound employments of both ... because the virtues of either age may correct
the defects of both.
-- Francis Bacon, "Essay on Youth and Age"
In charity there is no excess.
-- Francis Bacon
Knowledge is power.
-- Francis Bacon
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
-- Francis Bacon