My dad thought all wedding cakes should be white. Times have changed.


Francis Wollenzien

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A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
FRANCIS BACON
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed...
FRANCIS BACON
The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
FRANCIS BACON
The average person's ear weighs what you are, not what you were.
FRANCIS QUARLES
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discou...
FRANCIS BACON
The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
FRANCIS BEAUMONT
I hold every man a debtor to his profession.
FRANCIS BACON
He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and ...
FRANCIS BACON
Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the most valuable.
FRANCIS BACON
All colors will agree in the dark.
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far...
FRANCIS BACON
It is a strange desire, to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose pow...
FRANCIS BACON
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.
FRANCIS BACON
In thinking, if a person begins with certainties, they shall end in doubts, but if they can begin wi...
FRANCIS BACON
Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars,...
FRANCIS BACON
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
FRANCIS BACON
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.
FRANCIS BACON
Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwre...
FRANCIS BACON
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.
FRANCIS BACON
Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.
FRANCIS BACON
The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
FRANCIS BACON
The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.
FRANCIS BACON
Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosp...
FRANCIS BACON
Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.
FRANCIS BACON
Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.
FRANCIS BACON
Truth arises more readily from error than from confusion.
FRANCIS BACON
What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.
FRANCIS BACON
It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in...
FRANCIS BACON
Truth is a naked and open daylight
FRANCIS BACON
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit...
FRANCIS BACON