He paid a little more attention to everything.


Francis Allen

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
I think a lot of guys really paid attention to that statement because we thought we were doing well....
BRIAN RANDLE
I always paid attention to Lil Wayne - close attention. He's my idol. He's still my idol.
YOUNG THUG
The government knew a lot, if they had just paid more attention.
ELENI KOUSOULIS
The fox would get a lot more chicks if he or she paid more attention to their nose and ears than fal...
BOBBY W. MILLER
He fiddled with a little tablet on a cord around his neck. Percy hadn’t paid much attention to it,...
RICK RIORDAN
To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't ...
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN
The object was to get to (Allen) early and he kind of got rattled a little bit.
JAMES COTTON
So much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty and greed with all th...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELDT
...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with al...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT
He pays attention to everything.
LAURA SEEGER
I pay attention... When I'm PAID to pay attention.
THOMAS DIEBER
Everything around you is talking, but are you listening? you may need to pay a little more attention...
SOTONYE ANGA
Everything I touch makes me a little bit more like the thing I’m touching, so I’d better start p...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH
It's always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually ...
EDWARD DE BONO
They pretty much lost everything. He (Allen) just seems like he's lost. He just doesn't want to leav...
GINGER FORD
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...
ARTHUR CLARKE
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since ...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
I believe they should have paid a little more - a 16 percent premium, to me, sounds a little cheap.
MATTIAS GRENMARK
We havent really paid much attention to thought as a process. we have engaged in thoughts, but we ha...
DAVID BOHM
Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He...
BRENDAN FRASER
I think Woody Allen is Woody Allen, and no matter where he goes he still makes his Woody Allen films...
ABBAS KIAROSTAMI
I certainly think that you're under more scrutiny. But, to be honest, in my first five years here, I...
MIKE GROH
This is the first age that's ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic si...
ARTHUR C. CLARKE
I think much more attention needs to be paid to the homeland defense mission. The Guard is a great t...
CHRISTINE WORMUTH
I never ever paid attention to any election.
YOUNG JEEZY
Female television viewers paid attention to Catherine Gale.
HONOR BLACKMAN
You can tell that he paid attention in that kind of detail to Prince because he admired him that muc...
LORNE MICHAELS
But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attent...
NICKI MINAJ
The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.
NAPOLEON HILL
In the necessary memorialisation of the six million dead, there had been precious little attention p...
EDWARD ZWICK
That's a hubris that, if he had paid attention to what happened to himself and other presidents, he ...
GEORGE EDWARDS
It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more ...
EDWARD DE BONO
The success of a production depends on the attention paid to detail.
DAVID O. SELZNICK
Not enough attention is paid to the retention issue.
MICHAEL LARSON
A little attention, a little kindness, a little thoughtfulness are worth more than all the wealth in...
AVIJEET DAS
Kids get separated from their parents all the time. Had his parents paid attention, this little chil...
TED WILLIAMS
I paid more attention to the way I looked before my children were born. Afterward, it wasn't importa...
MEG TILLY
I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
EARL SCRUGGS
He does a little bit of everything, sometimes he does it wrong, but he does a little bit of everythi...
JODY JENERETTE
There should be more attention paid to scientific research in the ecology area, and I think that suc...
THOMAS R. CECH
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living ...
LUTHER BURBANK
If we had paid no more attention to our plants than we have to our children, we would now be living...
LUTHER BURBANK
If I paid less attention to details, Id trust easier.
KEYSHMA.SOSA
He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing ...
ARTHUR MILLER
As a small boy Francis Crick had been haunted by a fear that by the time he grew up everything would...
MATT RIDLEY
There are things we can do to give us a little more attention... I've got to look more frantic.
GEORGE BUSH
Everything was a prayer to St. Francis, his whole life was a prayer. This is what we strive for, too...
COSETTE SCHAAF
The national Democratic Party has paid little or no attention to us. If I were advising Jim Hodges, ...
DICK HARPOOTLIAN
My father resented that I was paid so much more than he was.
DAVID HOLT
I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'l...
INBEE PARK
I never really paid attention to sales until the second record.
DANIEL JOHNS
He's a Canadian, he should get more attention,
ALEXANDER OVECHKIN
I definitely have a little Woody Allen inside of me. That is true.
AUTRE NE VEUT
He wanted it to be a scholarly book, ... I think if I had been a commercial writer, he would not hav...
JAMES HANSEN
Everything we put our attention on becomes more, bigger, and brighter.
TONY BURROUGHS
My school was OK, but I just wanted to do music. I was a bit of a daydreamer. I wish I'd gone ba...
ELIZA DOOLITTLE
We never really paid attention to the business side of it (before).
LINDA BECKER
I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything a...
MOTHER TERESA
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
GENE FOWLER
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY
He has a little of everything,
JEFF FAINE
They have appealed through an improved quality of store, more merchandise, bilingual orientation and...
EARL DE BERGE
He started to serve big. I think he knew he had to serve bigger because in the baseline rallies, I w...
JURGEN MELZER
He was probably a little apprehensive. It took a little time after his adopted mom passed before he ...
CHRISTINE SANOK
Why don't we pay more attention to little children and be nice to each other.
NURUDEEN USHAWU
Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repres...
NATAN SHARANSKY
We had a lot of guts, heart and passion. We were in extreme foul trouble. We went back-and-forth the...
JEFF GRESS
Too little attention is paid to the dark side of incentives. They are anything but a magic bullet. P...
BARRY SCHWARTZ
A little twist to the usual, "Everything comes to he who waits". Everything comes to him who hustles...
THOMAS ALVA EDISON
To become a big movie star like Joan Crawford, you need to wear blinders and pay single-minded atten...
EVELYN KEYES
Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
JEFF MILLER
Special attention will be paid to places of worship, our churches and our schools.
MORRIS IEMMA
I just paid attention and gave 110 percent on every play.
JAKE HUTTON
The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY
I decided to forgive you after reading The Little Flowers of Saint Francis,” María began. “You ...
NANCY FARMER
Heaven's always been wireless but allowing pets is a more recent development... Thanks Pope Francis!
KEN O. ELDIB
Allen turned up at my little cabin, ... and we immediately began exchanging poems.
GARY SNYDER
I've got grandchildren running around that need a little more attention. I might even get to spend a...
CURT BLADT
No one paid the least attention, or else they told us to give it up.
MASAFUMI MIURA
It's like the old saying, when you sell you always expect a little more, and when you buy, you alway...
FRANK STRONACH
Sometimes the little things are what means more to me
DEICY ZULEICA GONZALEZ
I was reared in an atmosphere where a great deal of attention was paid to women's hairdressing.
ERICH VON STROHEIM
Whether there are innately female leadership styles... is not really the right question. It is more ...
CHARLOTTE BUNCH
If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
SALMAN RUSHDIE
He always gets you in the mood to play. He pays attention to little details that help you win the ga...
CHAD AKINS
He was so innovative and he made a little bit of everything.
ALLAN MILLER
He was so innovative and he made a little bit of everything.
ALLAN RAYMOND MILLER
Not fault of teaching spider if little spider pay more attention to catching fly than doing lesson.
ANNE BISHOP
Isn't everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?
JULIE DELPY
My sense of things is the attention being paid to [the housing market] may be exaggerated.
GARY STERN
He could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but t...
TED HUGHES
He has caught my attention - he showed he can start more games for us.
FELIX MAGATH
'Alligator' was the first record that anyone paid attention to, and it seemed like it was th...
MATT BERNINGER
Allen received the justice he deserved for the murders he committed. Allen deserves capital punishme...
WARD CAMPBELL
He competes all the time and is always aware of everything around him. And he never gives up on the ...
BENOIT ALLAIRE
I am pleased with our performance. The young ladies paid attention to detail in the game plan.
ANTONIO DAVIS
I just told James they paid him the ultimate compliment by paying so much attention to him.
TERRY HOEPPNER
I have very good relations with Pope Francis. I read constantly what he says and follow his speeches...
NICOLAS MADURO
This was not perfect so far. But I believe a lot of people in the whole world paid attention to base...
ICHIRO SUZUKI

More Francis Allen

He's a very good student of gymnastics. Some guys aren't students. They're just here to compete in g...
FRANCIS ALLEN
If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
 FRANCIS
“Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
 FRANCIS
Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
 FRANCIS
Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
 FRANCIS
Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
 FRANCIS
Friends let friends wear purple.
 FRANCIS
It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
 FRANCIS
Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
 FRANCIS
Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON
Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS
The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I
Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON
A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS
There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON
Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON
Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS
Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS
We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS
From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS
In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS
When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS
The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON
I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS
We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE
I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN
I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN
The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS
Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY
We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON
Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother. [Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON
The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON
There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON
But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON
Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON
Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN
There is no expeditious road To pack and label men for God, And save them by the barrel-load. ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON
One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs; where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON
We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON
Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON
We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON
Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES
That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES
God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS
For knowledge, too, is itself a power. [Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up.
FRANCIS BACON
Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
FRANCIS BACON
For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is an impression of pleasure in itsel...
FRANCIS BACON
If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON
Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men..
FRANCIS PICABIA
The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha...
QUARLES FRANCIS
So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top. [Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg...
FRANCIS BACON
States are great engines moving slowly.
FRANCIS BACON
They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body;...
FRANCIS BACON
All beliefs are bald ideas.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON
Education is too important to be left solely to the educators.
FRANCIS KEPPEL
Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when...
FRANCIS ATTERBURY
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused m...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit...
FRANCIS BACON
Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God.
FRANCIS CHAN
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;...
FRANCIS BACON
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
DICK FRANCIS
Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
FRANCIS BACON
If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ...
FRANCIS BACON
No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
FRANCIS BACON
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
FRANCIS BACON
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
FRANCIS BACON
Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must...
FRANCIS BACON
The essence of a man is found in his faults.
FRANCIS PICABIA
For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per...
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit...
FRANCIS PICABIA
A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a...
FRANCIS QUARLES
To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b...
FRANCIS BACON
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
FRANCIS BACON
Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend...
FRANCIS BACON
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
FRANCIS BACON
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,...
FRANCIS BACON
Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
FRANCIS BACON
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from...
FRANCIS BACON
It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ...
FRANCIS BACON
There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy...
FRANCIS BACON
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
FRANCIS BACON
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f...
FRANCIS BACON
Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil...
FRANCIS BACON
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON
An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma...
FRANCIS LOCKIER
Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ...
CLARENCE FRANCIS
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de...
FRANCIS BACON
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv...
FRANCIS BACON
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
FRANCIS BACON
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor...
BRENDAN FRANCIS
The road to perseverance lies by doubt.
FRANCIS QUARLES
If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ...
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
FRANCIS BACON
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the...
FRANCIS BACON
Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns.
FRANCIS PICABIA
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
FRANCIS CRAWFORD
Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.
FRANCIS PICABIA
If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,...
FRANCIS QUARLES
The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl.
FRANCIS THOMPSON
Wickedness is its own punishment.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety.
FRANCIS QUARLES
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.
FRANCIS QUARLES
The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.
FRANCIS PICABIA
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
FRANCIS QUARLES
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
FRANCIS SCHAEFFER
Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ...
FRANCIS BACON
People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Science is but an image of the truth.
FRANCIS BACON
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co...
FRANCIS BACON
Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.
FRANCIS BACON
Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun...
FRANCIS QUARLES
Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.
FRANCIS BACON
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
FRANCIS BACON
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
FRANCIS BACON
Truth is a naked and open daylight
FRANCIS BACON
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall...
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o...
FRANCIS BACON
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
FRANCIS BACON