Francis Bacon Quotes & Quotations

Francis Bacon Quotes

» Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

» A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

» I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

» The worst men often give the best advice.

» With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.

» The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

» In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

» Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.

» A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

» Silence is the virtue of fools.

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