Francis Bacon Quotes

It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on.

Francis Bacon

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

Francis Bacon

Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.

Francis Bacon

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon

Revenge is a kind of wild justice which the more mans nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.

Francis Bacon

Little do men perceive what solitude is and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company and faces are but a gallery of pictures and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.

Francis Bacon

Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon

Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread.

Francis Bacon

Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth.

Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

Francis Bacon

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures.

Francis Bacon

Fortune is like the market where many times if you can stay a little the price will fall.

Francis Bacon

Time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Time is the author of authors.

Francis Bacon

If a man looks sharply and attentively he shall see fortune for though she be blind yet she is not invisible.

Francis Bacon

Many a mans strength is in opposition and when he faileth he groweth out of use.

Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

Francis Bacon

Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man.

Francis Bacon

I would live to study not study to live.

Francis Bacon

Quotes by Francis Bacon

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection

Create New Collection