Quotes by Kevin Bacon
87 quotes by Kevin Bacon
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about life
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about judges
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about judges, integrity, virtue, things
Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about knowledge, power, human imperfections
Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about opinion
Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about happiness, age, olderness, moment, life
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.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about solitude, companies, man, love
Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about use, man
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about fear, fairy tales, children, dark, death, man
Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about habits, body, moral, mind, man
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about ability, experience, need
Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about rightness, justice, religion
Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about state, man, nothing
Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.
Quote by Kevin Bacon about character, mind, being, things, man