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Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations
 The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in morals is the heroical virtue. - Francis Bacon | Adversity Quotes  There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon | Beauty Quotes As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. - Francis Bacon | Birth Quotes Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Francis Bacon | Books and Reading Quotes All rising to great places is by a winding stair. - Francis Bacon | Goals and Ambition Quotes It is left only to God and to the angels to be lookers on. - Francis Bacon | God Quotes Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. - Francis Bacon | Hope Quotes A sudden, bold, and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open. - Francis Bacon | Human Relations Quotes Knowledge is power. - Francis Bacon | Knowledge Quotes Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. - Francis Bacon | Law and Lawyers Quotes Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. 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 | Loneliness Quotes Riches are for spending. - Francis Bacon | Money Quotes Money is like muck - not good unless it be spread. - Francis Bacon | Money Quotes Generally music feedeth that disposition of the spirits which it findeth. - Francis Bacon | Music Quotes We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. - Francis Bacon | Nature Quotes Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he groweth out of use. - Francis Bacon | Power Quotes He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon | Progress Quotes Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of Man. - Francis Bacon | Religion Quotes I would live to study, not study to live. - Francis Bacon | Scholars and Scholarship Quotes Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion. - Francis Bacon | Truth Quotes The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before. - Francis Bacon | Virtue Quotes They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. - Francis Bacon | Happiness Quotes Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed. - Francis Bacon | Acceptance Quotes The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes Those that lack friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his griefs to his friends, but he grieveth the less. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. - Francis Bacon | Friendship Quotes Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. - Francis Bacon | Self-Reliance Quotes A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon | Self-Reliance Quotes Time is the greatest innovator. - Francis Bacon | One Day Quotes Time is the author of authors. - Francis Bacon | One Day Quotes They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they see nothing but sea. - Francis Bacon | Difficult Days Quotes Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly. - Francis Bacon | Change Quotes He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. - Francis Bacon | Change Quotes The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes a wrong one ... the more active and swift the latter is, the further he will go astray. - Francis Bacon | Decisions Quotes Nothing is terrible except fear itself. - Francis Bacon | Fear Quotes If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. - Francis Bacon | Doubts and Uncertainties Quotes A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon | Success Quotes Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon | Recognize and Maximize Quotes If a man looks sharply and attentively, he shall see fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon | Opportunity Quotes A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Francis Bacon | Opportunities Quotes They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. - Francis Bacon | Work Quotes Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall. - Francis Bacon | No pressure, no diamonds. Quotes Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon | Adversity Quotes The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. - Francis Bacon | Adversity Quotes The virtue of adversity is fortitude, which in mortals is the heroical virtue. - Francis Bacon | Worthy Victories Quotes God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon | Nature Quotes Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Francis Bacon | Anger Quotes 
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