Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known.
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Nothing is so firmly believed as that which is least known
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Nothing is so firmly believed as what we least know.
MICHEL EYQUEM DE MONTAIGNE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference which is, at least, half infidelity.
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference, which is, at least, half infidelity
EDMUND BURKE Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY The stability and peace which seemed to be so firmly established by the brilliant monarchy of Franci...
LYTTON STRACHEY There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!
ALBERT EINSTEIN She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not -...
ANNE BRONTë There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do an...
EDGAR WATSON HOWE There is nothing so well known as that we should not expect something for nothing - but we all do an...
E. W. HOWE I begin by imagining
The impossible
And end by accomplishing
The impossible.
SRI CHINMOY Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Nothing is impossible on 'Game of Thrones.'
FAYE MARSAY There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's ow...
GEORGE MOORE Don't try to bring about darkness on a Monday
Don't let a Tuesday go thirsty
Don't show temper to a ...
APURVA GAGLANI He firmly believed in what he was doing, and you couldn't sway him from that. It was wonderful to ha...
HOPE LUGO Striving for the impossible is better than striving for nothing.
SCOTT MORTENSEN It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.
ROALD DAHL Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing i...
GEORGE WHITEFIELD There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.
ANDREW CARNEGIE With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
DAISAKU IKEDA Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
JOHN HEYWOOD Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. truth itself becomes suspicious by being p...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Life is weird and wonderful like that, is it not.
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a...
DEYTH BANGER No stars gleam as brightly as those which glisten in the polar sky. No water tastes so sweet as that...
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER DRUCKER There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
PETER F. DRUCKER It's not as much a raise as it is catching up with the salary increases that haven't been made. We f...
GARY RAVANI There is nothing which we receive with so much reluctance as advice.
JOSEPH ADDISON When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL There is nothing with which it is so dangerous to take liberties as liberty itself.
ANDRE BRETON Nothing, nothing, nothing, no error, no crime is so absolutely repugnant to God as everything which ...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the rich...
JERRY SALTZ The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyon...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Translation is that which transforms everything so that nothing changes.
GüNTER GRASS We felt that Robert had to have qualities that Jeffrey and Elaine hadn't encountered before. Not jus...
CRAIG LUCAS You mean old books?"
"Stories written before space travel but about space travel."
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PHILIP K. DICK Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which
the intention is so clearly evident...
EPHRAIM GOTTHOLD LESSING Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
IMMANUEL KANT Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be built
IMMANUEL KANT The word "impossible" is only in the mind
And not in the heart.
If we can remain in the he...
SRI CHINMOY There's an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu. It's when you meet the same people or visi...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK I won't predict anything historic. But nothing is impossible.
MICHAEL PHELPS Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.
MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe an...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN You yawn to equalize the pressure on your eardrums. This pressure change outside your eardrums unb...
WHY YAWNING IS CONTAGIOUS Be original, be yourself, be you.
ELISE R MAUDE IS There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud es...
UNKNOWN There is nothing in the whole frame of man which seems to me so unaccountable as that thing called c...
ROBERT BURNS There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.
SAMUEL BUTLER Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.
RALPH W. SOCKMAN As accidental as my life may be, or as that random humor is, which governs it, I know nothing, after...
ANTHONY ASHLEY COOPER Nothing is so exhausting as indecision, and nothing is so futile.
BERTRAND RUSSELL That's SHIT!
How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so
much happiness is produced as by ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
AUDREY HEPBURN While nothing is certain, I firmly believe our nation is on the verge of a nuclear energy renaissanc...
MICHAEL K. SIMPSON Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength
ST. FRANCIS DE SALES Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing so gentle as real strength.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES As a researcher, every once in a while you encounter something a little disconcerting. And this is s...
SENDHIL MULLAINATHAN to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
rare carpenter?
WILLIAM SHAKESPERE Publicity does not come easily, profits do not come easily, and knowledge does not come easily.
RYAN HOLIDAY I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Commerce is one of the daughters of Fortune, inconsistent and deceitful as her mother. she chooses h...
BEN JOHNSTON Jews are known for many things, but strength, swiftness, and agility are not among them. There is on...
STEVEN PINKER That government is best which governs least.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU That government is best which governs least.
HARRY S. TRUMAN That government is best which governs least.
THOMAS PAINE The world that we live in is a weakness. To continuously live in an environment that weakens you, on...
APURVA GAGLANI That which is clearly known hath less terror than that which is but hinted at and guessed.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with fo...
LEONARD MLODINOW Laws made in Alaska, which is known for its lawlessness, are as valid as laws made in Pennsylvania, ...
KEVIN BLEYER Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural...
L. RON HUBBARD There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No,...
SAMUEL JOHNSON Because I've heard so many stories that I don't know which one is the most popular. But I do know wh...
JAY ASHER Even these stars, which seem so numerous, are as sand, as dust - or less than dust - in the enormity...
CARL SAGAN Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
PROVERB Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.
GERMAN PROVERB Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN if you love someone,you did not think if it was right...all you know was you love the person so much...
VERONICA LAPPAY Life is what it is supposed to be, its just not always what you want it to be...
DANIEL GILMAN There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...
BUDDHA There is nothing so disobedient as an undisciplined mind, and there is nothing so obedient as a disc...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be...
EUGENE KENNEDY When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known ...
HOWARD NEMEROV There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capa...
SOREN KIERKEGAARD Nothing shortens a journey so pleasantly as an account of misfortunes at which the hearer is permitt...
QUENTIN CRISP As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.
DANIEL WEBSTER
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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...
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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.
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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.
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POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
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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