Darling Quote by Francis Bacon Download Open image “Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling.” — Francis Bacon ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Darling Fool Fortune Wealth
Fortune, by being too lavish of her favours on a man, only makes a fool of him. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
Fortune, like a coy mistress, loves to yield her favors, though she makes us wrest them from her. — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If fortune wishes to make a man estimable, she gives him virtues; if she wishes to make him esteemed, she gives him success. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“Fortune does us neither good nor hurt; she only presents us the matter and the seed, which our soul, more powerful than she, turns… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
“Men can assist Fortune but not oppose her; they can weave her schemes but they cannot break them.” — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
"Natural" is a very dangerous word to use about sexuality ... Our society's notions of normality are completely fake and meta-trendy, since they rely… — Susie Bright Copy Share Image
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Mom?" I said. She turned. "Can I talk to you about something?" "Of course, darling. Come here." I took a few steps into the… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The only siblings I have are half-siblings. My nuclear family would have been an extra-suffocating threesome. Instead, I have an interesting brother and sister,… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
Oh, darling, you will be good to me, won’t you? Because we’re going to have a strange life. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Enough of self, that darling luscious theme, O'er which philosophers in raptures dream; Of which with seeming disregard they write Then prizing most when… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
You were joking about the whole please and thank you thing, right?" "Meant every word." A little light danced in his eyes and he… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There have only been two authentic geniuses in the world, Willie Mays and Willie Shakespeare and I think you'd better put Shakespeare first, darling. — Tallulah Bankhead Copy Share Image
It's a brutal world out there. If you consider the case of superstar Rajesh Khanna, he was a darling of the masses in his… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
