Francis Bacon Quotes - Page 2

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
- Francis Bacon

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.
- Francis Bacon

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
- Francis Bacon

As the births of living creatures are at first ill shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
— Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon

Chiefly the mold of a man’s fortune is in his own hands.
- Francis Bacon

A man that is young in years may be old in hours, if he has lost no time.
- Francis Bacon

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
- Francis Bacon

Boldness is a child of ignorance.
- Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed on and digested.
- Francis Bacon

Dreams, and predictions of astrology…. ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
- Francis Bacon

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
- Francis Bacon

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
- Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
- Francis Bacon

Friendship redouble th joys, and cut griefs in half.
- Francis Bacon

The best preservative to keep the mind on health is the faithful admonition of a friend.
- Francis Bacon

Custom is the principle magistrate of man’s life.
- Francis Bacon

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