For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but… — 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 Image
The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend. — 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 today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
...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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
