Wit Quotes by Francis Bacon

Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest.

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs.

— Francis Bacon

Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down.

— Francis Bacon

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

— Francis Bacon

Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind.

— Francis Bacon

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

— Francis Bacon

...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

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

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

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

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

— Francis Bacon

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

— 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

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