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12663 quotesA sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
Questions
Francis Bacon
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A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Opportunity
Francis Bacon
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Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
Anger
Francis Bacon
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Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
Uncategorised
Francis Bacon
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Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
Atheism
Francis Bacon
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Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Choice
Francis Bacon
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Cure the disease and kill the patient.
Doctors
Francis Bacon
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
Fame
Francis Bacon
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Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
Fate
Francis Bacon
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God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
Gardening and Gardens
Francis Bacon
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God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
Providence
Francis Bacon
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Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
Home
Francis Bacon
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
Death and Dying
Francis Bacon
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I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
Professions and Professionals
Francis Bacon
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I would live to study, and not study to live.
Studying
Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Courtesy
Francis Bacon
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Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
Fate
Francis Bacon
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
Fear
Francis Bacon
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It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
Politicians and Politics
Francis Bacon
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Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
Knowledge
Francis Bacon
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
Lies and Lying
Francis Bacon
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Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy.
Life and Living
Francis Bacon
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Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
Consistency
Francis Bacon
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Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
Opposition
Francis Bacon
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Money makes a good servant, but a bad master.
Money
Francis Bacon
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun