Every person born in the USA is endowed with life, liberty, and a substantial share of the national debt. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As the births of living creatures are at first ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life... — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Such philosophy as shall not vanish in the fume of subtile, sublime, or delectable speculation but shall be operative to the endowment… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves the insects are eating each other; violence is a part… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I'm working for myself; what else have I got to work for? How can you work for an audience? What do you… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If I go to the National Gallery and I look at one of the great paintings that excite me there, it's not… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My painting is not violent, it's life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Jesus would have been one of the best photographers that ever existed. He was always looking at the beauty of people souls.… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Existence is in a way so banal, you may as well try and make a kind of grandeur of it” — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The human understanding, when any preposition has been once laid down... forces everything else to add fresh support and confirmation; and although more cogent… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative. — Francis Bacon Copy Share
Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share
