Francis Bacon
93 quotations
Age will not be defied.
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.
None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
Riches are for spending.
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
Acorns were good until bread was found.
By indignities men come to dignities.
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.