202 Quotations by Francis Bacon
- 1. A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

- 2. A good conscience is a continual feast.

- 3. A good life is a series of joyful meetings and joyful moments.

- 4. A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.

- 5. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

- 6. A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

- 7. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

- 8. A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

- 9. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

- 10. Acorns were good until bread was found.

- 11. Age will not be defied.

- 12. All colors will agree in the dark.

- 13. All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from ...

- 14. All our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from li ...

- 15. All rising to great place is by a winding stair.

- 16. Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.

- 17. Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre ...

- 18. As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all innovations, which are the b ...

- 19. Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

- 20. Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must ...

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