Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The true bounds and limitations, whereby human knowledge is confined and circumscribed,... are three: the first, that we do not so place… — 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
There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . .… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die? — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Men fear death as children fear to go into the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales,… — 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
