Bad's the best of us.
Francis Beaumont
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Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT But what is past my help is past my care.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Beaumont is a more difficult case because of the total lack of housing.
ALBIE LEWIS Hopefully tonight you might have some lights in the skyline of Beaumont,
JOE DOMINO Francis is our best freshman. We've been waiting for him to come through like this.
DAVE TALBOTT We rode for two days in Beaumont on city buses.
NYKAOCHIA COLLINS I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll
ELTON JOHN What is love? It is not simply compassion, not simply kindness. In compassion there are two: the one...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS The rich fop Francis of Assisi was bored all his life―until he fell in love with Christ and gave a...
PETER KREEFT We saw the track when we rode our bikes down in (the Beaumont) area.
SMOKEY MCKIEL But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take ...
ROBERT SARAH How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL That's why I loved being with you. We could do the simplest things, like toss starfish into the ocea...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I gave you the best of me, he'd told her once, and with every beat of her son's heart, she knew he'd...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Change isn't always for the best.
NICHOLAS SPARKS Steve Francis wasn't playing like the Steve Francis we all know. I think he'll show the real Steve i...
DESHAWN STEVENSON Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a pro...
POPE JOHN PAUL II From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.
POPE JOHN PAUL II An excuse is worse and more terrible than a lie, for an excuse is a lie guarded.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Today, for the first time in history, a Bishop of Rome sets foot on English soil. This fair land, on...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressi...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not d...
POPE JOHN PAUL II To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Young people are threatened... by the evil use of advertising techniques that stimulate the natural ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II When freedom does not have a purpose, when it does not wish to know anything about the rule of law e...
POPE JOHN PAUL II You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day t...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The future starts today, not tomorrow.
POPE JOHN PAUL II The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels ...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and b...
POPE JOHN PAUL II The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to re...
POPE JOHN PAUL II Violence and arms can never resolve the problems of men.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, ther...
POPE JOHN PAUL II There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you...
POPE JOHN PAUL II I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.
POPE JOHN PAUL II Of course you are American,' he said, and waived his hand, like waving away the sentiment. 'What oth...
TONY D'SOUZA Forgetting himself for a moment, Francis brought his hand out from under his frock in order to bless...
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UFUOMA APOKI The scars of others should teach us caution.
ST. JEROME They talk like angels but they live like men.
ST. JEROME Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not...
SAINT AUGUSTINE The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.
SAINT PATRICK I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worth...
SAINT PATRICK He that offereth sacrifice of the goods of the poor is as one that sacrificeth the son in the presen...
SAINT PATRICK I was freeborn according to the flesh; I am born of a father who was a decurion, but I sold my noble...
SAINT PATRICK I have had the good fortune through my God that I should never abandon his people whom I have acquir...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressi...
SAINT PATRICK Let who will scoff and revile - I will not remain silent; neither will I conceal the signs and wonde...
SAINT PATRICK I only seek in my old age to perfect that which I had not before thoroughly learned in my youth, bec...
SAINT PATRICK I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
SAINT PATRICK I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
SAINT PATRICK No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small acco...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart, so that I should recall my sins.
SAINT PATRICK It was not any grace in me, but God that put this earnest care into my heart, that I should be one o...
SAINT PATRICK Sufficient for me is that honour which is not seen of men but is felt in the heart, as faithful is H...
SAINT PATRICK Before I was humiliated I was like a stone that lies in deep mud, and he who is mighty came and in h...
SAINT PATRICK I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of ...
SAINT PATRICK The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
SAINT PATRICK Among the many signs of a lively faith and hope we have in eternal life, one of the surest is not be...
SAINT IGNATIUS I can love a person in this life only insofar as he tries to advance in the praise and service of Go...
SAINT IGNATIUS Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower,...
SAINT IGNATIUS
More Francis Beaumont
Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, y...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT You are no better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Here's an acre sown indeed,
With the richest royalest seed.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT 'Twas he
Gave heat unto the injury, which returned
Like a petard ill lighted, unto the bosom
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have a care not to disclose our hearts to those who shut up theirs against us.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT All confidence which is not absolute and entire, is dangerous. There are few occasions but where a m...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Daisies smell-less, yet most quaint, / And sweet thyme true, / Primrose, first born child of Ver, / ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Mortality, behold and fear! / What a change of flesh is here!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nose, nose, jolly red nose, / And who gave thee this jolly red nose? . . . / Nutmegs and ginger, cin...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Upon my buried body lie / Lightly, gentle earth.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT As men / Do walk a mile, women should talk an hour, / After supper. 'Tis their exercise.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT It is always good/ When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted
FRANCIS BEAUMONT The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us
FRANCIS BEAUMONT But what is past my help is past my care.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Kiss till the cow comes home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT Honor's a thing too subtle for wisdom; if honor lie in eating, he's Right Honorable
FRANCIS BEAUMONT There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT To say the truth, though I say 't that should not say 't.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will;
'Tis god-like to have power, but not to kill.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER O great corrector of enormous times,
Shaker of o'er-rank states, thou grand decider
Of dusty a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Oh, woman, perfect woman! what distraction
Was meant to mankind when thou wast made a devil!
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To have been happy, madame, adds to calamity.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No friend's a friend till [he shall] prove a friend.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER After supper walk a mile.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put a spoke among your wheels.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou will scare be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What mare's nest hast thou found?
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hit the nail on the head.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I find the medicine worse than the malady.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is an hour in each man's life appointed
To make his happiness, if then he seize it.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Charity and treating begin at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let them learn first to show pity at home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense
of tranquility which religion fai...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis not a life,
'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Beggars must be no choosers.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There's nothing that allays an angry mind
So soon as a sweet beauty.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Death hath so many doors to let out life.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER We must all die!
All leave ourselves, it matters not where, when,
Nor how, so we die well; and...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Hunger is sharper than the sword.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER An injury graves itself in metal, but a benefit writes itself in
water.
[Fr., L'injure se grave e...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER All your better deeds
Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Deeds, not words.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Speak boldly, and speak truly, shame the devil.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Something given that way.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER This is a pretty flimflam.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER As high as Heaven, as deep as Hell.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER No better than you should be.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER From the crown of our head to the sole of our feet.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Corruption is a tree, whose branches are
Of an immeasurable length: they spread
Ev'rywhere; a...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It is always good
When a man has two irons in the fire.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I care not twopence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Then, my good girls, be more than women, wise:
At least be more than I was; and be sure
You cr...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Vice gets more in this vicious world
Than piety.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nose, nose, holly red nose,
And who gave thee that jolly red nose?
Nutmegs and ginger, cinammo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It shew'd discretion, the best part of valor.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Yet what are they, the learned and the great?
Awhile of longer wonderment the theme!
Who shall...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new, and follow'd; yet we know
That what was worn some tw...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Look babies in your eyes, my pretty sweet one.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Kiss till the cows come home.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But is there nothing else,
That we may do but only walk? Methinks
Brothers and sisters lawful...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Ask how to live? Write, write, write, anything;
The world's a fine believing world, write news.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A civil habit
Oft covers a good man.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER My dancing days are done.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Evil beginning houres may end in good.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Lie lightly on my ashes, gentle earthe.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Come, sing now, sing; for I know you sing well;
I see you have a singing face.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hem...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER But they that are above
Have ends in everything.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER What's one man's poison, signior,
Is another's meat or drink.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Calamity is man's true touch-stone.
- Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher,
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fountain-heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER That place that does contain
My books, the best companions, is to me
A glorious court, where h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He that's liberal
To all alike, may do a good by chance,
But never out of judgment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Nothing can cover his high fame but Heaven;
No pyramids set off his memories,
But the eternal ...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER One foot in the grave.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Fortune, now see, now proudly
Pluck off thy veil, and view thy triumph; look,
Look what thou h...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A soul as white as Heaven.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Sing a song of sixpence.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under
Fortune's false lottery, desperately run
To death, fo...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER And he that will to bed go sober,
Falls with the leaf still in October.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER It would talk;
Lord, how it talked!
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let's meet and either do or die.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Of every noble action the intent
Is to give worth reward, vice punishment.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER 'Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being unrestrained, a heart is broken.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He shall have chariots easier than air,
That I will have invented; . . . And thyself,
That art...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Go far--too far you cannot, still the farther
The more experience finds you: And go sparing;--
...
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll put that in my considering cap.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness,
It grows up by degrees.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Let the world slide.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER Whistle, and she'll come to you.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER He comes not in my books.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER I'll have a fling.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER A cold wind raced across the surrounding fields of wild grass, turning the land into a heaving dark-...
CHARLES BEAUMONT Maurice made a massive contribution to all the teams he played for. He had a huge heart and will be ...
BILL BEAUMONT Maurice was a powerful and very athletic rugby player who made a massive contribution to the clubs h...
BILL BEAUMONT The lads say my bum is the equivalent of one 'Erica
BILL BEAUMONT I've gotten to saying that the irony is pretty thick around here.
JAY BEAUMONT They'll have to figure out a way to bring water into Pine Bush from the rest of Crawford.
JAY BEAUMONT That's been our Achilles this year. In three conference losses, we've had 23 errors. It makes it dif...
MIKE BEAUMONT These girls are a tight group. They just support each other and they do not panic. They make mistake...
MIKE BEAUMONT We but the ball in play a lot tonight. We had a great game plan coming in tonight we were going t...
MICHAEL BEAUMONT If God is real, I'm going to be sadly disappointed in Science...
FRANCIS “Everytime Illegal Immigration is brought up in the Good 'Ol U.S. of part of America, 'Native Amer...
FRANCIS Family ain't blood or sharing a last name, Family are those who treat you like it.
FRANCIS Humans come equipped with Bullshit.
FRANCIS Our thoughts and dreams make this world, and reality is only as true as we perceive it to be.
FRANCIS Friends let friends wear purple.
FRANCIS It prolly' subscribes to some type of Personal Jesus, otherworldly devices, or a Higher Power...
FRANCIS Mensa, n. Head case with delusions of grandeur.
FRANCIS Why slander we the times?
What crimes
Have days and years, that we
Thus charge them with...
DR. JOSEPH BEAUMONT Calamity is man's true touchstone.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER sometimes the most simple things in the world can be the most beautiful.
ROWENA BEAUMONT CHERRY Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has ...
POPE FRANCIS The worship of the golden calf of old has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and t...
POPE FRANCIS Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation.
POPE FRANCIS If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just.
POPE FRANCIS There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON Abortion isn't a lesser evil, it's a crime. Taking one life to save another, that's what...
POPE FRANCIS Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity...
FRANCIS BACON In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
FRANCIS BACON Money has to serve, not to rule.
POPE FRANCIS Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.
POPE FRANCIS We all have the duty to do good.
POPE FRANCIS From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve ...
POPE FRANCIS In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, R...
POPE FRANCIS When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without ...
POPE FRANCIS The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and b...
POPE FRANCIS Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON I actually do not believe that there are any collisions between what I believe as a Christian, and w...
FRANCIS COLLINS We should be the natural home for the millions of Britons of immigrant origin. But we're not. Be...
FRANCIS MAUDE I remember being in Atlantic City once when I was 18 or 19, and a sea of people were screaming and p...
GENIE FRANCIS Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Our God and Souldiers we alike adore,Evn at the Brink of danger; not before:After deliverance, both ...
FRANCIS QUARLES Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.
FRANCIS PICABIA Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body...
FRANCIS BOWEN I could fill my whole time doing interviews, speaking to crowds, and there's this natural human ...
FRANCIS CHAN The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.
POPE FRANCIS Manchester was a fantastic place to go out in. There were 10 clubs with world-class cabaret and come...
FRANCIS LEE My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.
FRANCIS ASBURY We were soon free of the woods and bushes, and fairly upon the broad prairie.
FRANCIS PARKMAN If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with d...
FRANCIS BACON Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.
FRANCIS BACON Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider...
FRANCIS BACON Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
FRANCIS BACON The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.
FRANCIS BACON Not a breath of air stirred over the free and open prairie; the clouds were like light piles of cott...
FRANCIS PARKMAN Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the
mother.
[Lat., Religio peperit divit...
FRANCIS BACON The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the
vicissitude of sects and religions.
FRANCIS BACON There was never law, or set, or opinion did so much magnify
goodness, as the Christian religion dot...
FRANCIS BACON But no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage
ground of Truth.
FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and co...
FRANCIS BACON Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.
FRANCIS PICABIA A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge is ancient error reflecting on its youth.
FRANCIS PICABIA A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
FRANCIS BACON Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.
FRANCIS BACON Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they
are incensed or crushed.
FRANCIS BACON Destiny is not a matter of chance; but a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, It is...
FRANCIS CRAWFORD In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea fir...
FRANCIS DARWIN There is no expeditious road
To pack and label men for God,
And save them by the barrel-load.
...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Know you what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of to-day. It i...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others' pain ...
FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing destroys authority so much as the unequal and untimely interchange of power, pressed too far...
FRANCIS BACON One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON We cannot command nature except by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the...
FRANCIS BACON We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity.
POPE FRANCIS Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.
FRANCIS QUARLES Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for
execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Fear nothing but what thy industry may prevent; be confident of nothing but what fortune cannot de...
FRANCIS QUARLES Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
FRANCIS QUARLES That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
FRANCIS QUARLES The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving...
FRANCIS QUARLES God invented concubinage, Satan marriage.
FRANCIS PICABIA To say that you can kill in the name of God is blasphemy.
POPE FRANCIS For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
[Lat., Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est.]
FRANCIS BACON