Francis Bacon Quotes & Quotations

Francis Bacon Quotes

» Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

» It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''

» Cure the disease and kill the patient.

» He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

» There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

» They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.

» Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

» Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

» They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.

» Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

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