1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be defied.
Francis Bacon – [Age and Aging]
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Francis Bacon – [Discretion]
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Francis Bacon – [Fame]
For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon – [Love]
For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.
Francis Bacon – [Wisdom]
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon – [Heresy]
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Francis Bacon – [Fate]
God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
Francis Bacon – [Gardening and Gardens]
God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Francis Bacon – [Providence]
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Francis Bacon – [Intelligence and Intellectuals]
God's first creature, which was light.
Francis Bacon – [Creation]
Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.
Francis Bacon – [Fame]
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon – [Advice]
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Francis Bacon – [Family]
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?.
Francis Bacon – [Problems]
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon – [History and Historians]
Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
Francis Bacon – [Hope]
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Francis Bacon – [Home]
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Francis Bacon – [Death and Dying]
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon – [Atheism]
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