Quote | Author | Send |
Revenge is the poor delight of little minds. Juvenal A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. | Francis Bacon |
|
Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt. | Francis Bacon |
|
Silence is the virtue of fools. | Francis Bacon |
|
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. | Francis Bacon |
|
The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs which there is no law to remedy. | Francis Bacon |
|
The ways to enrich are many, most of them foul. | Francis Bacon |
|
The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. | Francis Bacon |
|
There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise. | Francis Bacon |
|
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. | Francis Bacon |
|
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. | Francis Bacon |
|
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education, in the elder part of experience. | Francis Bacon |
|
Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion. | Francis Bacon |
|
When any of the four pillars of government – religion, justice, counsel and treasure – are mainly shaken or weakened, men had need to pray for fair weather. | Francis Bacon |
|
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age and old men’s nurses. | Francis Bacon |
|
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable. | Francis Bacon |
|