1,014 Quotes by Francis Bacon

The monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?

Money is like manure, its only good if you spread it around.

Prawdę łatwiej wyłowić z błędów niż z zamętu.

Men create oppositions, which are not; and put them into new terms, so fixed, as whereas the meaning ought to govern the term, the term in effect governeth the meaning.

Umysłowi ludzkiemu nie skrzydeł potrzeba, lecz ołowiu.

İnsanların ölümden korkması çocukların karanlık bir yere girmekten korkmalarına benzer, çocukların doğal korkusunu masallar nasıl arttırırsa, insanın ölüm korkusu da öyle artar.

Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset.