Quotes about Man, page 7

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

By indignities men come to dignities.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

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 man

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

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.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

Quote by Francis Bacon about man

As much preparation as I had made for the old man Salieri, gestures and so on, the fact is after sitting for hours, your movements are kind of slow.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about man

Dick Smith is the best makeup man in the world. I'd get to the studio by 4:30. We'd work on the makeup for four and a half hours.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about man

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 man

Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about 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 man

I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.

Quote by F. Murray Abraham about 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 man

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Quote by Kevin Bacon about man