You are no better than you should be.
Francis Beaumont
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No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
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YOU QUANXI In a robust global business environment, our business units operated well in the first quarter. More...
HARRY YOU The Board of Directors and I are pleased to recognize Peter's outstanding contribution to the succes...
HARRY YOU We are pleased to close the books on 2004 following the painstaking review of almost five years of f...
HARRY YOU You really should not be friends with someone you think you are better than.
LAURA E. BRUSSEAU No better you than the you that you are
ALESSIA CARA Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI If you are only doing what you are getting paid for, and doing it no better than the average employe...
BO BENNETT You can be all that you want to be.
Keep dreaming and reach out to your dreams.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA No one is any better than you, but you are no better than anyone else until you do something to prov...
DONALD LAIRD Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI There's no better time than now to be who you are.
BOY GEORGE Be yourself because no one can be you better than you.
LORRIN L. LEE Better by far that you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI How can you be better than you are?
LORRIN L. LEE Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nobody's better than you and you're no better than anybody.
MARY MIHALIC Remain unique. Just be you
SOTONYE ANGA Wherever you are, be all there.
CRAIG GROESCHEL No matter who you are there is something you can do better than any one else.
THE INSPIRATIONIST Know who you are and be who you are insofar as it is deem fit, for there is nothing so contemptuous ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Its better to be told you are wrong,than live thinking you are wrong
KIMBERLY SHILENJE Are you on drugs?”
“No.”
“Maybe you should be.…
RAINBOW ROWELL I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life expe...
UTADA HIKARU No matter how good you are at something, there's always about a million people better than you.
DAN CASTELLANETA Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
JULIUS CHARLES HARE Be all that you can be.
You can be great.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA No one is more qualified than you are to decide how you live; no one should be able to vote on what ...
CRIMETHINC. Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect a...
ALFRED MONTAPERT Your life will be no better than the plans you make and the action you take. You are the architect a...
ALFRED A. MONTAPERT It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE You are doing better than you think you are.
ALAN COHEN You should increase weekly mileage no more than 10 percent. If you run 20 miles this week, then you ...
DOUG TUMEN You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER Hopefully tonight you might have some lights in the skyline of Beaumont,
JOE DOMINO You can't get anybody that's more relaxed than Eli. If you do, you better check your pulse. You prob...
MICHAEL STRAHAN You cant do better, be better or have better than you believe you can.
DANIEL GILMAN It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
JULIE DE LESPINASSE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for someone you are not.
JAVAN Don't waste your tremendous voice writing messages in the sand.
LORIN MORGAN-RICHARDS Should I be better than you if I make a little bit more money? No. Unfortunately, you know, some peo...
WOODY AUSTIN You are not a bad person because you are gay. You are you because you are you and you were meant to ...
TEGAN QUIN Think better than bitter; you are far better than bitter!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no be...
T. D. JAKES You should always be aware of your surroundings, and always be conscious of the fact that no matter ...
STEVE LOUCKS It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE You are not, nor ever will be, better than anyone else besides the person you are now.
BO BENNETT Do your best, and be a little better than you are.
GORDON B. HINCKLEY I am who I am. U r who u r. Be who u r. Don't let nobody tell u different.
TOMMI POLO I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ...
ASHISH KUMAR Be yourself, be who you can be.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C. S. LEWIS Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead ...
C.S. LEWIS If you are waiting on the "Right Time" there is no better time than "Right Now".
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE Better by far you should forget and smile that you should remember and be sad.
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than ...
KEN VENTURI If you are better than all others, then you are greater than all those.
VIKRANT PARSAI When the time comes, you should be waiting ... it is better to be ready without opportunities than n...
MINA TADROS Your goal should be to find contentment in a life well lived knowing that you left the world a bette...
BILL VICKERS We should be the first stop when you are trying to better manage or grow your business. If you are a...
AL DIXON Your expectations of other people should never be greater than what you expect of God. Why is it tha...
SHANNON L. ALDER No one can teach you anything better than your experience.
NERRYMIAH SCIPIO No one can help you better than the heavenly Father.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you decide to be better than you were yesterday and maintain this attitude, you are going to th...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe...
QUENTIN CRISP You can't get anybody that basically just sits there and is more relaxed than Eli. If you do, you ha...
MICHAEL STRAHAN Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
OG MANDINO Surround yourself with people who are better than you and you will become better yourself.
MICHAEL B. KITSON When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contente...
KATHLEEN NORRIS When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented ...
KATHLEEN NORRIS No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
DAVID SEDARIS If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF When God loves you, what can be better than that?
ARETHA FRANKLIN I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.
TRACEY EMIN You are different from everyone in the crowd, that's why you are you
SOTONYE ANGA There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
JOSEPH HELLER That shot Bowman hit was a tough shot. Torin (Francis) rode him into the cheerleaders and he hit a l...
MIKE BREY No one really knows about you better than your own shadow.
VIKRANT PARSAI No better team ever played in this state than you - nobody.
DICK PEECHER There is one thing you have got to learn about our movement. Three people are better than no people.
FANNIE LOU HAMER Little drops of rain Whisper of the pain Tears of love Lost in the days gone by.
ROBERT PLANT "THANK YOU" You don't try to do more than you should.
KARL MALONE Man should be ever better than he seems.
AUBREY DE VERE If I was harsh with you, it was because I cannot bear to see you treat yourself as if you are worth ...
CASSANDRA CLARE By doing extraordinary things you are contributing to create a better world. Memorable should be the...
JUANMARKETING The time making money should be greater than the time that you are spending money.
SOPHIA AMORUSO Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your con...
WILLIAM FAULKNER Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT Paranoia will get you through times of no enemies better than enemies will get you through times of ...
PETE GRANGER I like the simplicity of soloing. You've got no gear, no partner. You never climb better than wh...
ALEX HONNOLD One thing nobody can do better than you is be you.
ELIZABETH MOON No nation ever had two better friends than we have. You know who they are? The Atlantic and Pacific ...
WILL ROGERS
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Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Bad's the best of us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT But what is past my help is past my care.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER After supper walk a mile.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What mare's nest hast thou found?
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hit the nail on the head.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I find the medicine worse than the malady.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Charity and treating begin at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let them learn first to show pity at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense
of tranquility which religion fai...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Beggars must be no choosers.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Death hath so many doors to let out life.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave e...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Deeds, not words.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Something given that way.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER This is a pretty flimflam.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I care not twopence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You cr...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nose, nose, holly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some tw...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Kiss till the cows come home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawful...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;
The world's a fine believing world, write news.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER My dancing days are done.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Evil beginning houres may end in good.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hem...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He that's liberal
To all alike, may do a good by chance,
But never out of judgment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER One foot in the grave.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A soul as white as Heaven.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Sing a song of sixpence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under
Fortune's false lottery, desperately run
To death, fo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let's meet and either do or die.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put that in my considering cap.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let the world slide.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Whistle, and she'll come to you.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He comes not in my books.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll have a fling.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-...
CHARLES BEAUMONT Maurice made a massive contribution to all the teams he played for. He had a huge heart and will be ...
BILL BEAUMONT Maurice was a powerful and very athletic rugby player who made a massive contribution to the clubs h...
BILL BEAUMONT The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here.
JAY BEAUMONT They'll have to figure out a way to bring water into Pine Bush from the rest of Crawford.
JAY BEAUMONT That's been our Achilles this year. In three conference losses, we've had 23 errors. It makes it dif...
MIKE BEAUMONT These girls are a tight group. They just support each other and they do not panic. They make mistake...
MIKE BEAUMONT We but the ball in play a lot tonight. We had a great game plan coming in tonight we were going t...
MICHAEL BEAUMONT 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 Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus charge them with...
DR. JOSEPH BEAUMONT Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY 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