Sir, my friend John Baynes used to say that the man who published a book without an index ought to be damned ten miles beyond Hell, where the Devil could not get for stinging nettles
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Related Half-way through the labour of an index to this book I recalled the practice of my ten years' study ... T.E. LAWRENCE Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT I keep saying I am an auto-didact, but I have a lot of outside influences. One I could cite is juggl... PHILIPPE PETIT I think the devil will not have [you] damned, lest the oil that's in [you] should set hell on fire. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In my opinion, the author-level metric can distort a real author's citation impact. For example, an ... ERALDO BANOVAC Don't you remember anything?! There is no 'devil.' There is no 'hell.' There is only Unrest. There i... LEANNA RENEE HIEBER Be the girl you want your daughter to be. Be the girl you want your son to date. Be classy, be smart... GERMANY KENT I loathe all political parties, which I regard as inventions of the devil. My favourite prime minist... GEORGE MACDONALD FRASER To be, or not to be, that is the question. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'... ABRAHAM LINCOLN After an acquaintance of ten minutes many women will exchange confidences that a man would not revea... PAGE SMITH Roper:So now youd give the Devil benefit of law!Sir Thomas More:Yes. What would you do? Cut a great ... ROBERT BOLT To be or not to be. That's not really a question. JEAN-LUC GODARD It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without amb... CHARLES BUKOWSKI The tears were back, stinging just behind my eyes. There was blood all over my penguins. I didn't gi... LAURELL K. HAMILTON CLOCK, n. A machine of great moral value to man, allaying his concern for the future by reminding hi... AMBROSE BIERCE Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES A fortune for one man that was more than he needed should not be built on ten thousand ruined men wh... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the d... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON If Dr. [John A. T.] Robinson is right in saying that "God is teaching us that we must live as men wh... E. L. MASCALL Do devils love each other? Do they walk arm in arm in hell saying, “Ah, you are my friend, how I l... ANNE RICE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE People know your tragedies and they treat you like you’re not human. Like you’re a three-h... ERIC JEROME DICKEY Humanizing war?! You may as well talk of humanizing Hell. Sir John Fisher BARBARA W. TUCHMAN No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir. JACK LONDON Now, Sir, it is impossible for serious men, to whom God has given the divine gift of reason, and who... THOMAS PAINE A book is a dear friend who has a thousand things to say. NICOLE SAGER The whole world feels that it knows Francis, not so much because he follows Francis of Assisi but be... EUGENE KENNEDY The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. ABRAHAM LINCOLN Every devil used to be an angel JOE HILLEY Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. MANDY HALE Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ... FEREIDOON YAZDI When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend... JANE SMILEY Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. H. G. WELLS I went back to the room to study and my nerves were shattered. I handicapped for three hours until m... MARK LOWE A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ... NEIL GAIMAN They used to call the devil the father of lies. But for someone whose sin is meant to be pride, you'... MIKE CAREY I've gotten letters, but mostly from Bible-belt types who say, you must be Satan! They come right ou... GEORGE A. ROMERO We are in hell, my dear, there is never a mistake and people are not damned for nothing. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The identity ought to be tied to the community. It ought to be unique. We took that and used that fo... CARM BASILE I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence. MALCOLM X I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN Sir Francis Drake circumsized the world with a 100-foot clipper. UNKNOWN HISTORY STUDENT Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... CRAIG GROESCHEL To the devil with those who published before us.
[Lat., Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.] AELIUS DONATUS Do you know where 'policeman' comes from, sir? ... 'Polis' used to mean 'city', said Carrot. That's ... TERRY PRATCHETT It took four months to collect the recipes, type them and get the book published. We had a contest b... JENNIFER WARNER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a ... MARTHA STEWART An author is somebody who writes a story. It doesn't matter if you're a kid or if you're... JARRETT J. KROSOCZKA I often used to say, the more parties there were for a book, the worse the book was. FRAN LEBOWITZ The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is. JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy "To go outside, and there perchance to stay Or to re... HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being. TOM ROBBINS Sir Hugh Greene is the man I hold most responsible for the state of our country today. For 11 years ... MARY WHITEHOUSE When I was a ten-year-old book worm and used to kiss the dust jacket pictures of authors as if they ... ERICA JONG The poems in the fifth section are from a book I'm trying to get published. HARRY BROWN For in this Case, we are not to give Credit to the Many, who say, that none ought to be educated but... EPICTETUS A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People who have been hardworking, tax paying, those people ought to be given an opportunity to be on... RUTH BADER GINSBURG A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of eternity; my ambition is... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambitio... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Sir, a man who cannot get to heaven in a green coat, will not find his way thither the sooner in a g... SAMUEL JOHNSON God knew our lives would be really bad sometimes. Like maybe we'd be turned into a monster and then ... MICHAEL GRANT Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Raise hell - big time. I want y'all to get out there and raise hell about damned near everything... MOLLY IVINS We're so excited about allowing people who are not familiar with the story of John Parker to get a f... DAVID KINLEY No man ought to look a given horse in the mouth. The Proverbs of John Heywood (1546) JOHN HEYWOOD A young man who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abidin... EZRA TAFT BENSON Three cheers for Prohibition. Without it where the hell would I be? THE WIZARD OF OZ To say that the emperor has no clothes is a nice anti-authoritarian gesture, but to say that everyth... REBECCA SOLNIT The serpent, the king, the tiger, the stinging wasp, the small child, the dog owned by other people,... CHANAKYA I don't own the personal hubris to assume that any book I'm writing is going to get published, MARK SPRAGG The man who is always worrying whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn... OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ... BENJAMIN FRANKLIN A man will speedily sit down and sympathize with a friend's griefs, but if he sees him honored a... CHARLES SPURGEON I do not believe that any book should be denied to the man who possesses the wisdom to understand it... S.J. PARRIS The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my a... FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Be who you want to be not what others think you should be. BILAL SAIF My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a chi... MANIKA Could I get mansions covering ten thousand miles, I'd house all the poor scholars and make them beam... DU FU We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rath... EPICTETUS A real devil among devils. ANNE RICE I had nothing to say to these strangers, whoever or whatever they were. CATHERINE LACEY
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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 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 Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth up. FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of
the cause frustrates the effect. FRANCIS BACON For all knowledge and wonder (which is the seed of knowledge) is
an impression of pleasure in itsel... FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us. FRANCIS BACON Men have always need of god! A god to defend them against other men.. FRANCIS PICABIA The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number. FRANCIS HUTCHESON Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is ha... QUARLES FRANCIS So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top.
[Lat., Adeo ut omnes imperii virg... FRANCIS BACON States are great engines moving slowly. FRANCIS BACON They that deny a God destroy man's nobility; for certainly man is
of kin to the beasts by his body;... FRANCIS BACON All beliefs are bald ideas. FRANCIS PICABIA Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli... FRANCIS BACON Education is too important to be left solely to the educators. FRANCIS KEPPEL Those good men who take such pleasure in relieving the miserable for Christ's sake, would not have b... FRANCIS ATTERBURY They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made ... FRANCIS ATTERBURY The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from when... FRANCIS ATTERBURY The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the
desire of knowledge in excess caused m... FRANCIS BACON If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin wit... FRANCIS BACON Lukewarm living and claiming Christ's name simultaneously is utterly disgusting to God. FRANCIS CHAN Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition : namely, that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss;... FRANCIS BACON Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them. DICK FRANCIS Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. FRANCIS BACON If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to ... FRANCIS BACON No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being. FRANCIS BACON Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. FRANCIS BACON Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. FRANCIS BACON Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must... FRANCIS BACON The essence of a man is found in his faults. FRANCIS PICABIA For we are born in other's pain, and perish in our own. FRANCIS THOMPSON Nothing begins, and nothing ends, That is not paid with moan; For we are born in others pain And per... FRANCIS THOMPSON Nature is unfair? So much the better, inequality is the only bearable thing, the monotony of equalit... FRANCIS PICABIA A free spirit takes liberties even with liberty itself. FRANCIS PICABIA Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent. FRANCIS PICABIA Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, a... FRANCIS QUARLES To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the b... FRANCIS BACON Life, an age to the miserable, and a moment to the happy. FRANCIS BACON Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friend... FRANCIS BACON The worst solitude is to have no real friendships. FRANCIS BACON For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal,... FRANCIS BACON Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it. FRANCIS BACON All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from... FRANCIS BACON It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what ... FRANCIS BACON There be three things which make a nation great and prosperous: a fertile soil, busy workshops, easy... FRANCIS BACON Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. FRANCIS BACON Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their f... FRANCIS BACON Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil... FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great ent... FRANCIS BACON An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident. FRANCIS THOMPSON No one will ever shine in conversation, who thinks of saying fine things: to please, one must say ma... FRANCIS LOCKIER Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desire to attain to what thou art not; for where thou... FRANCIS QUARLES Christianity provides a unified answer for the whole of life. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER You can buy a person's time; you can buy their physical presence at a given place; you can even buy ... CLARENCE FRANCIS Discern of the coming on of years, and think not to do the same things still; for age will not be de... FRANCIS BACON Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom driv... FRANCIS BACON Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read. FRANCIS BACON The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is mor... BRENDAN FRANCIS The road to perseverance lies by doubt. FRANCIS QUARLES If God exists and we are made in his image we can have real meaning, and we can have real knowledge ... FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep. FRANCIS BEAUMONT I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. FRANCIS BACON It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the... FRANCIS BACON Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger. FRANCIS QUARLES The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns. FRANCIS PICABIA To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself. FRANCIS CRAWFORD Look for me in the nurseries of Heaven. FRANCIS THOMPSON Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue. FRANCIS QUARLES Anger may repast with thee for an hour, but not repose for a night; the continuance of anger is hatr... FRANCIS QUARLES Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god. FRANCIS PICABIA If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself,... FRANCIS QUARLES The devil doesn't know how to sing, only how to howl. FRANCIS THOMPSON Wickedness is its own punishment. FRANCIS QUARLES Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word satiety. FRANCIS QUARLES My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back. FRANCIS PICABIA Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. FRANCIS QUARLES The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous. FRANCIS PICABIA Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. FRANCIS QUARLES He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent. FRANCIS QUARLES Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world. FRANCIS SCHAEFFER Silence is the virtue of fools. FRANCIS BACON It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. FRANCIS BEAUMONT Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as ... FRANCIS BACON People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and ... FRANCIS BACON Science is but an image of the truth. FRANCIS BACON The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss; and co... FRANCIS BACON Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason. FRANCIS BACON Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortun... FRANCIS QUARLES Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god. FRANCIS BACON 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 There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is reall... FRANCIS BACON Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, o... FRANCIS BACON If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics. FRANCIS BACON Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top. FRANCIS BEAUMONT