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Sir Francis Bacon Quotes and Quotations
 Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. - Sir Francis Bacon | Age Quotes  The best work, and of greatest merit for the public, has proceeded from the unmarried or childless men. - Sir Francis Bacon | Bachelor Quotes A healthy body is a guest-chamber for the soul; a sick body is a prison. - Sir Francis Bacon | Body Quotes Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. - Sir Francis Bacon | Books Quotes Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon | Culture Quotes Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. - Sir Francis Bacon | Discration Quotes The folly of one man is the fortune of another. - Sir Francis Bacon | Folly Quotes Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling. - Sir Francis Bacon | Fortune Quotes Houses are built to live in, and not to look on. - Sir Francis Bacon | House Quotes Our humanity were a poor thing but for the divinity that stirs within us. - Sir Francis Bacon | Humanity Quotes All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race, nor alienate so much property, as drunkenness. - Sir Francis Bacon | Intemperance Quotes I take all knowledge to be my province. - Sir Francis Bacon | Knowledge Quotes For knowledge, too, is itself a power. - Sir Francis Bacon | Knowledge Quotes Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. - Sir Francis Bacon | Learning Quotes He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. - Sir Francis Bacon | Marriage Quotes A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage. - Sir Francis Bacon | Marriage Quotes I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto. - Sir Francis Bacon | Occupation Quotes A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. - Sir Francis Bacon | Philosophy Quotes Reading maketh a full man. - Sir Francis Bacon | Reading Quotes There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth. - Sir Francis Bacon | Religion Quotes In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior. - Sir Francis Bacon | Revenge Quotes Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend. - Sir Francis Bacon | Study Quotes The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and commit to memory the one, and forget and pass over the other. - Sir Francis Bacon | Superstition Quotes Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set. - Sir Francis Bacon | Virtue Quotes Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses. - Sir Francis Bacon | Wife Quotes This world's a bubble. - Sir Francis Bacon | World Quotes 
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