Friendship Quotes by Francis Bacon

“A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy”

— Francis Bacon

Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half.

— Francis Bacon

Without friends the world is but a wilderness.

— Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

— Francis Bacon

Friends are thieves of time.

— Francis Bacon

The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel.

— Francis Bacon

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

— Francis Bacon

Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.

— Francis Bacon

“Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends”

— Francis Bacon

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

— Francis Bacon

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

— Francis Bacon

Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.

— Francis Bacon

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

— Francis Bacon

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between…

— Francis Bacon

But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without…

— Francis Bacon

“For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections, from storm and tempests; but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out…

— Francis Bacon

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth…

— Francis Bacon

Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side,…

— Francis Bacon

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

— Francis Bacon

“Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to…

— Francis Bacon

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but…

— Francis Bacon

“You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies; but you never read, that we are commanded to…

— Francis Bacon

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and…

— Francis Bacon

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

— Francis Bacon

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all…

— Francis Bacon