Francis Bacon: Trending quotes (page 5)

“The only really interesting thing is
what happens between two people in a room.”

“The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.”

“Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.”

“Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.”

“Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”

“The remedy is worse than the disease.”

“A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.”

“A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.”

“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”

“Silence is the virtue of a fool.”

“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.”

“Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

“Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed.”

“Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion.”

“By far the best proof is experience.”

“Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.”

“The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.”

“There Are But Two Tragedies in Life-One is One's Inability to attain One's Heart's Desire-The Other Is To Have It!”