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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...
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS
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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

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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.
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What mare's nest hast thou found?
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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...
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Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.
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'Tis not a life, 'Tis but a piece of childhood thrown away.
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Beggars must be no choosers.
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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...
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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.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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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