Bitter Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bitter Children Misfortunes
Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
The bottomless bitter misery of childhood: how little even now it is understood. Probably no adult misery can be compared with a child's despair. — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
Children are sweet as the buds in spring, But I've noticed that those who have them Have nothing but trouble all their lives. — Euripides Copy Share Image
Misfortunes are, in morals, what bitters are in medicine: each is at first disagreeable; but as the bitters act as corroborants to the stomach,… — French Proverb Copy Share Image
Children are brutal and have no malice, which makes everything they say horribly cutting. — Iain Stirling Copy Share Image
“When parents are grieved by their children's wickedness they should take occasion thence to lament that corruption of nature which was derived from them,… — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
“Children do not dwell on the ordinary harshness of life, even as they suffer through it.” — Vahan Zanoyan Copy Share Image
This is the pain-pleasure of having newly adult children; they're innocent and ruthless in forgetting their sweet old dependence. — Ian Mcewan 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 and abundant instances may exist to the contrary, yet it either does not observe them or it despises them, or it gets rid of and rejects them by some distinction, with violent and injurious prejudice, rather… — 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 Image
The cooler days have brought a wistful mood upon him. The smell of coalsmoke in the air at night. Old times, dead years. For… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when… — Solomon Ortiz Copy Share Image
Don't be bitter. Everybody suffers. If you can accept your suffering then you will understand other people better. Be grateful for pain. Love life. — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
Troy was a sweet, good man. We just were never destined to be married. We just didn't have the same values. But I'm not… — Suzanne Pleshette Copy Share Image
You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since… — Alexander the Great Copy Share
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“I doubt taking in a sullen, bitter, teenage girl with more issues than National Geographic is at the center of the vision board for… — Katja Millay Copy Share Image
Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With every interview you feel like you lose a piece of yourself, and with every bad review you become just that little bit more… — Jane March Copy Share Image
I refuse to be one of those artists who, 10 years from now, they're bitter about the rise and the fall of their career.… — Luke Bryan Copy Share Image
