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Quotes from Francis Bacon

Opportunity makes a thief.
~ Francis Bacon
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.
~ Francis Bacon
You can't be more horrific than life itself.
~ Francis Bacon
Painting gave meaning to my life which without it would not have had
~ Francis Bacon
Then bless thy secret growth, nor catch At noise, but thrive unseen and dumb; Keep clean, be as fruit, earn life, and watch, Till the white-wing'd reapers come.
~ Francis Bacon
Innovations, which are the births of time.
~ Francis Bacon
But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
~ Francis Bacon
No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out.
~ Francis Bacon
If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.
~ Francis Bacon
It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.
~ Francis Bacon
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
~ Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in studies is sloth.
~ Francis Bacon
They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.
~ Francis Bacon
Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.
~ Francis Bacon
The remedy is worse than the disease.
~ Francis Bacon
Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.
~ Francis Bacon
Rebellions of the belly are the worst.
~ Francis Bacon
Vices of the time; vices of the man.
~ Francis Bacon
Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.
~ Francis Bacon
To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
~ Francis Bacon
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
~ Francis Bacon
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
~ Francis Bacon
They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
~ Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
~ Francis Bacon