"Acorns were good until bread was found." — Francis Bacon
"Acorns were good until bread was found."
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Francis Bacon
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261 Quotes by Francis Bacon
Francis Bacon has 261 quotes on this site.
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Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him…
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Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to…
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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Knowledge is power.
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A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.
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It is impossible to love and to be wise.
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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
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In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
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A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
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More Acorn Quotes
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You know, when you get your first asparagus, or your first acorn squash, or your first really good tomato of…
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence…
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The greatest achievement was at first and for a time a dream. The oak sleeps in the acorn, the bird…
— James Allen
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The boughs of the oak are roaring inside the acorn.
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The acorn becomes an oak by means of automatic growth; no commitment is necessary. The kitten similarly becomes a cat…
— Rollo May
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Eventually, even a blind squirell will find an acorn.
— Jim Cornette
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What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if…
— Philip Roth
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If you allow spirit to have dominion in your heart you will have dominion in your life. That changes thinking.…
— Marianne Williamson
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
— Edward Abbey
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I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let…
— Ted Nugent
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Oak trees come out of acorns, no matter how unlikely that seems. An acorn is just a tree's way back…
— Shirley Ann Grau
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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