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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.


Francis Bacon

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FRANCIS BACON A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal...
FRANCIS BACON He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
JOHN MILTON But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death...
FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON A man need never revenge himself, the body of his enemy will be brought to his own door
CHINESE PROVERBS I think that was very important to Bacon... personally. I think he went to great efforts to get a ho...
MARK RYLANCE It is impossible to love and to be wise.
FRANCIS BACON SR. Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
DAVID LYNCH My early paintings weren't that good - I was very influenced by Francis Bacon. But there was a k...
JULIAN SCHNABEL The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to m...
CLIVE BARKER Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entre...
JERRY SALTZ That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart.
SIR RICHARD STEELE That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE SR. That man never grows old who keeps a child in his heart
RICHARD STEELE, SR. A hedge between keeps friendship green.
GERMAN PROVERB It was revenge. I wanted to make him eat his own words.
ED MCCRAY It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
LORD MELBOURNE It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the lov...
WILLIAM LAMB MELBOURNE The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH A man is known by the company his mind keeps.
THOMAS ALDRICH I remember when you used to have your profession on your passport and I always thought that being a ...
DAMIEN HIRST Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
DOUG LARSON I like eggs and bacon," George tells me. "But" - his face clouds - "do you know that bacon is" - tea...
HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK Various different people have inspired me throughout my career. From Francis Bacon to Vassareli, Coc...
DRIES VAN NOTEN I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but al...
JOHN HEYWOOD I always say Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is my biggest influence. But for painters, I like many, many...
DAVID LYNCH I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all...
BILL HIRST Nobody has Francis Bacon on their walls in their house - or very few people - but sometimes people l...
SIMON RATTLE Burleigh, absolutely; and a lot about Elizabeth. I mean I found when I play Henry V a lot of connect...
MARK RYLANCE When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting femal...
JERRY SALTZ Rest assured that there is nothing which wounds the heart of a noble man more deeply than the though...
MOLIERE Man keeps looking for a truth that fits his reality. Given our reality, the truth doesn't fit.
WERNER ERHARD It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the l...
JEFFREY BERNARD In taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
THOMAS FULLER By taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing over it, he is superior.
UNKNOWN In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
FRANCIS BACON In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
SIR FRANCIS BACON In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior
FRANCIS BACON SR. Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inheri...
FRANCIS HERBERT HEDGE just heard a commercial
which told me
Farmer John smokes his own
bacon.
now, the...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Stronger than lover's love is lover's hate. Incurable, in each, the wounds they make.
EURIPIDES I give thee what is most my own - A Dedication by Francis William Bourdillon
FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON The man of character is the persistent man, the man who is faithful to his own word, his own convict...
MARIA MONTESSORI Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inhe...
FREDERICK HENRY HEDGE The man that keeps his wife lonely too long comes home to an unpleasant surprise for the rest of his...
NERISSA IRVING Well, for that matter, I was also a good friend of Leonardo da Vinci, Botticelli, Francis Bacon, Alb...
ALYSON NOEL Revenge proves its own executioner.
JOHN FORD Revenge proves its own executioner.
JOHN FORD Virtue is its own revenge.
E. Y. HARBURN "A man who changes his thoughts can change his life; a man who changes his life can change the lives...
TAMARA N. GREEN But I find with Francis Bacon, some of the things were in the place, and someone who was connected w...
MARK RYLANCE Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the...
JANET MALCOLM A man sits in his car at the traffic lights, waiting for them to go green.
MICHAEL FRAYN I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look f...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING The key question, it seemed to him, was that of whether man was to obey Nature, or attempt to comman...
PAUL BOWLES Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.
YIDDISH PROVERB Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys
JEWISH PROVERB A man after his own heart.
BIBLE Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own l...
EDWARD ABBEY What makes the vanity of others insupportable is that it wounds our own
FRANçOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A man is known by the company he keeps, but a woman by the man who keeps her.
VIKRANT PARSAI Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out o...
RALPH STEADMAN You cannot just be working in a vast, air-conditioned loft space and think you are going to make a d...
PETER DOIG A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror...
SIGMUND FREUD A man must make his own arrows.
AMERICAN INDIAN PROVERB A wise man does his own work.
TURKISH PROVERB Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his character...
HAL HOLBROOK Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green.
TORQUATO TASSO For your own good is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destruct...
JANET FRAME "For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own dest...
JANET FRAME "For your own good" is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own destru...
JANET FRAME ''For your own good'' is a persuasive argument that will eventually make a man agree to his own dest...
JANET FRAME Man is hypocrite! He says that he loves flowers but he kills them for his own simple interests and f...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT . . . it's a poor kind of man that won't fight for his own freedom.
ALICE CHILDRESS A man is not a man until he leaves his home or has a house of his own.
VIKRANT PARSAI They say let he who is without sin cast the first stone. And to be without sin requires absolute for...
EMILY THORNE The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own ...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Wil ate without enthusiasm. His bacon tasted like nothing. Like a dead animal, fried. His eggs, abor...
MAX BARRY I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look for...
WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING He had long ago learned that society imposes insults that must be borne, comforted by the knowledge ...
MARIO PUZO What makes the vanity of others insufferable to us is that it wounds our own.
FRANCIOUS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD A sumptuous dwelling the rich man hath. And dainty is his repast; but remember that luxury's prodiga...
MARY ELIZABETH HEWITT Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge.
HIAWATHA Man looks in the abyss, there's nothing staring back at him. At that moment, man finds his chara...
HAL HOLBROOK Show me the man who keeps his house in hand,
He's fit for public authority.
SOPHOCLES It’s all right to tell a man to lift himself by his own bootstraps, but it is cruel jest to say to...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The only sort of pride that may serve a man well on that rarest occasion is his hatred of being wron...
CRISS JAMI I had this idea for a while to do mix this Al Green vibe with a samba thing. I tried to do that in m...
ARTO LINDSAY A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion
CHINESE PROVERBS Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his o...
JOHN CALVIN It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy cita...
JOHN KEATS He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certa...
JEREMY TAYLOR Every man makes a god of his own desire.
DAVID TUVILL A man cannot be uncomfortable without his own approval
MARK TWAIN A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
MARK TWAIN

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FRANCIS BACON Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
FRANCIS BACON Men commonly think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and imbibed op...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON Boldness is a child of ignorance.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; Adversity is the blessing of the New.
FRANCIS BACON All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man. - ...
FRANCIS BACON The World's a bubble, and the Life of Man less than a span: In his conception wretched, from the w...
FRANCIS BACON