Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Quote by Francis Bacon about habits, life
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107 quotes by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon - english Philosopher
Was born on 22 jan 1561.
Died on 09 apr 1626, at 65 years old.
Died on 09 apr 1626, at 65 years old.
Origin country: United Kingdom
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.
Quote by Francis Bacon about good, good luck, order, word
Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Quote by Francis Bacon about fame, things, light
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Quote by Francis Bacon about fashion, art, magic
For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Quote by Francis Bacon about nation, memory, name, man
Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Quote by Francis Bacon about wealth, stores, fall
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Quote by Francis Bacon about friendship
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.
Quote by Francis Bacon about limits, god
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.
Quote by Francis Bacon about fame, fire, fire brigade, good, good luck
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.
Quote by Francis Bacon about example, moral, good, good luck, advice, bad luck, bad
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Quote by Francis Bacon about obstacles, wealth, wife, virtue, children
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator.
Quote by Francis Bacon about time
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
Quote by Francis Bacon about hope, bad luck, bad, good, good luck
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Quote by Francis Bacon about death, faith, man
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.
Quote by Francis Bacon about mind, faith
I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
Quote by Francis Bacon about olderness, old, age, man
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Quote by Francis Bacon about world, man
