“Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.”
Author
Francis Bacon
73 quotes
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“Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.”
“They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.”
“The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.”
“Knowledge and human power are synonymous.”
“People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.”
“A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.”
“By indignities men come to dignities.”
“A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.”
“Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.”
“The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.”
“Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.”
“We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.”
“Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.”
“The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.”
“It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.”
“Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.”
“If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.”
“Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.”
“Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.”
“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”
“What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.”