FastSaying

What they really want is to get their finger in the pie, or if not that, then they want to limit our gaming.


William Bacon

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

I don't want people getting mad at me if they can't get in, but 300 is our limit. I'm amazed at how ...
LOUIE ANDRUS And what do they want!?
DEYTH BANGER You are interested in the kitchen of the world - you want to find out what is cooking who has a fing...
QUEEN JULIANA Most people just want to be left in peace to eat their bacon, not realising that there is no peace b...
MANGO WODZAK People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little p...
LILITH SAINTCROW Societies that are disciplined to get what they want become dangerous when they do not get what they...
VIKRANT PARSAI To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD The biggest lie in the world is that when people tell you that what they really want is for you to t...
CARL WHITE It's not fair what they're doing to the Mexicans. They only want them to get visas, and then they wa...
LIZETTE HERNANDEZ Often people attempt to live their lives backwards, they try to have more things or more money in or...
MARGARET YOUNG Their attitude is they don't want the team to get really good after they graduate. They want it to b...
BILL BOYD I wasn't that wild about that. I told them basically if they were really going to want to bring back...
PHIL ANSELMO If they want to have their wall, fine. What we want is to make sure that we let immigrants in legall...
ANGELO AMADOR But if people want to swim in the Thames, if they want to take their lives into their own hands, the...
BORIS JOHNSON There's really no secret menu. Our motto is to give the customer what they want. If they want extra ...
DEAN ATKINS I think that regardless of whether or not there's a downturn, people want their children to have wha...
AL KAHN We essentially already have gaming. It's in our backyard, whether we want it or not. We are outsourc...
DEBRA TEUFEL If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... Mobile gaming is the next step of gambling technology because it allows the patron to gamble when he...
JOE ASHER The biggest reason people come in here, believe it or not, is not that they want the money. It's bec...
DAVID GOLDSTEIN For novelists or musicians, if they really want to create something, they need to go downstairs and ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI We hear from a number of our passengers that they appreciate Neighbor Ride because they do not want ...
COLLEEN KONSTANZER If they want to streamline the process, they need to get their building permits in control.
JAN HIBBARD Often people attempt to live their lives backwards: they try to have more things, or more money, in ...
MARGARET YOUNG The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify wit...
EAZY-E The family wants to have an understanding of what happened. And then they want to see that if somebo...
JAMES LEAVITT The players want to leave a legacy that they were tough. When they get out on the field they want th...
JIM HILL If they want their teens to abstain from sex, they need to say exactly what they want their kids to ...
BILL ALBERT I have zero interest in how people decide how they want to spend their lives or in what they decide ...
TONY DOMENECH Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER I think it is really neat because it shows that kids really do want to be involved and that they nee...
DOUG FRAME Many people think they want things, but they don't really have the strength, the discipline. The...
SOPHIA LOREN People do not attract that which they want, but that which they are. (To put it another way: When yo...
JAMES ALLEN People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they...
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they ...
DAVID MAMET Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you...
THOMAS SOWELL Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you...
THOMAS SOWELL We want different things. Men want to have sex with a woman. Then they want to have sex with another...
HUGH LAURIE What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble o...
LAWRENCE LINDSEY What we want to see is ... people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble o...
LAWRENCE LINDSEY The pregnancy is just evidence of sex, ... What they really don't want their parents to know is that...
CAROL SANGER The program is tailored to the volunteer and what they want to do. They pick and choose what they wa...
LAURA HERMAN If they really want to make some changes, then it's treatment that we're looking at. Not witch hunti...
BILLY BALDWIN People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - bu...
CONOR OBERST The folks that really have their act together get the building they want.
FRANK HAYES If you can dream it, then you can achieve it. You will get all you want in life if you help enough o...
ZIG ZIGLAR If one’s objective is to merely see his words getting published , then he should speak what they w...
ANUJ SOMANY When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?
LISA LOEB What we want to see is have people get more money in their pockets sooner, ... There's some trouble ...
LAWRENCE LINDSEY have no conviction, they have no principles, they have no ideas. If they want to get in the gutter, ...
BILL FRIST Naggers always know what they are doing. They weigh up the risks, then they go on and on and on unti...
JOOLS HOLLAND I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine....
TAYLOR SWIFT We always do what we MOST WANT to do, whether or not we like what we are doing at each instant of ou...
SIDNEY MADWED Most people want to keep working. Most people, if they are really not able to work will say, 'I can'...
BARBARA HOFFMAN Denial of one's need for others is the most common type of defense against bonding. If people come f...
HENRY CLOUD People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be -- whether they will ...
EARL NIGHTINGALE People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be / whether they will a...
EARL NIGHTINGALE People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will a...
EARL NIGHTINGALE Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they...
RICHARD NELSON BOLLES We just want people to tell us they want them built in their areas. Hopefully, that's what we'll hea...
GRANT LYNCH I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.
KARL LAGERFELD Most people seek after what they do not possess and are thus enslaved by the very things they want t...
ANWAR EL-SADAT If people want attention they go to all lengths to try and get it,then once they think they have don...
GARY F EVANS... eople—even good, impressive people—always want something simple and unimpressive. Everything goo...
B.J. NOVAK They want our operation to be completely separate. They don't want our staff to encounter their staf...
MARTHA CRAMER You have to decide what you want first of all. The problem with so many people is that they do not k...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Either their son isn't in (the Rivals.com network of prospect profiles) and they want to be in it, o...
MIKE FARRELL The problem for a lot of people is that they don't really know what they want. They have vague desir...
JOHN C. PARKIN It is in the public interest to know what our governors are up to. If they are up to doing good, the...
JIMMY REID To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If the patch is delivering too much estrogen, then it may need to be redesigned, ... Women should no...
LESLIE MILLER I've told them that this is their last year, and if they want to get in the playoffs, they are going...
EDGEY ARBUCKLE If you want to find out if someone's a taker, it's not actually that useful to know what the...
ADAM GRANT In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at th...
JACK CANFIELD No one ever gives me their kindness without hoping for something in exchange.

Are they an...
MARIE LU If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
ED WESTWICK They really want to see their players succeed, not only in athletics, but academically.
IVORY PITTS If that's something they want me to do, you've got to do what they want you to do. I really enjoy ca...
ERIC MUNSON In Germany they have to really try if they want to recreate what happened in 2002 in South Korea or ...
SEPP BLATTER The more our foreign policy is involved in killing innocent civilians, the more the youth will want ...
CHAABAN OMRAN We must teach our girls that if they speak their mind, they can create the world they want to see. (...
ROBYN SILVERMAN People do not want what we have in our pockets half as much as they want what is in our hearts. If w...
GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS Our massage is for someone who doesn't want to get undressed or doesn't have the time or money to ge...
EVE JOHNSON Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then...
THOMAS SOWELL I want to get to the moon. I want to go to Mars.
DAVID MACKAY I want to convince you that humans are, to some extent, natural born essentialists. What I mean by t...
PAUL BLOOM They made me realize anything that is worth having may require me to fail numerous times in order to...
CHARLENA JACKSON Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.
RICHARD SALANT What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is People forget that they have to create thei...
SUNDAY ADELAJA They want to get into the house because they want to give their children a legacy.
LAURA CARTER I didn't want to make it a lifetime thing. I don't believe in statutory term limits, but peo...
GEORGE J. MITCHELL They don't get upset with each other. They get upset with themselves because they want to win, reall...
DOUG HOWERY Their fans need to get here to Detroit if they want a voice.
DEBBIE JONES You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you g...
STEVE JOBS Immigrants care about what happens to them in the United States. They want to be our neighbors and c...
BILL CHANDLER If people want a sense of purpose they should get it from their archbishop. They should certainly no...
HAROLD MACMILLAN [Parents should] consider if they really want to have a TV in their 3-year-old's bedroom or not ... ...
VICKY RIDEOUT If they go over the fair-market value then they are on their own. It's difficult (here) to find the ...
JAMES SHEBL If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn...
TERRY PRATCHETT If they want to get pregnant, those white bead days are the days to have intercourse. If they don't ...
VICTORIA JENNINGS

More William Bacon

If the state of Idaho would allow a tribe that does not even have a reservation to open a casino in ...
WILLIAM BACON A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it...
BACON Dolendi modus, timendi non item. (To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.) -Bacon.
BACON Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
FRANCIS BACON There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not tr...
FRANCIS BACON For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
ROGER BACON 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 Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do giv...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him...
FRANCIS BACON For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. His hearer's...
ROGER BACON 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 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 A little philosophy inclineth men's minds to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds ...
FRANCIS BACON 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 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 Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for...
FRANCIS BACON Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
FRANCIS BACON 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 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 Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and soli...
FRANCIS BACON 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 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 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 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 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 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 Silence is the virtue of fools.
FRANCIS BACON Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous th...
KEVIN BACON 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 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 Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it...
ROGER BACON 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 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 All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This ...
ROGER BACON Riches are for spending.
FRANCIS BACON For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocency, except men know exactly a...
FRANCIS BACON None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.
FRANCIS BACON God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave...
FRANCIS BACON It is not what we eat but what we digest that makes us strong; not what we gain but what we save tha...
FRANCIS BACON As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the b...
FRANCIS BACON Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for ...
FRANCIS BACON Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.
FRANCIS BACON Opportunity makes a thief.
FRANCIS BACON Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners an...
FRANCIS BACON The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.
FRANCIS BACON Nature is commanded by obeying her.
FRANCIS BACON This is the foundation of all. We are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature...
FRANCIS BACON The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.
FRANCIS BACON Mysteries are due to secrecy.
FRANCIS BACON Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially n...
FRANCIS BACON In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to b...
FRANCIS BACON Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
FRANCIS BACON Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
FRANCIS BACON There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy...
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 Cure the disease and kill the patient.
FRANCIS BACON Many a man's strength is in opposition, and when he faileth, he grows out of use.
FRANCIS BACON They are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they see nothing but sea.
FRANCIS BACON The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and t...
FRANCIS BACON Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
FRANCIS BACON A graceful and pleasing figure is a perpetual letter of recommendation.
FRANCIS BACON Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more...
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 God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.
FRANCIS BACON If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his...
FRANCIS BACON God almighty first planted a garden: and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasure.
FRANCIS BACON Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet ...
FRANCIS BACON Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper.
FRANCIS BACON The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honore...
FRANCIS BACON Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
FRANCIS BACON It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and...
FRANCIS BACON Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, gra...
FRANCIS BACON For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next age...
FRANCIS BACON A healthy body is a guest chamber for the soul: a sick body is a prison.
FRANCIS BACON Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.
FRANCIS BACON Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.
FRANCIS BACON I would live to study, and not study to live.
FRANCIS BACON Judges ought to be more learned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than conf...
FRANCIS BACON For knowledge itself is power.
FRANCIS BACON Knowledge and human power are synonymous.
FRANCIS BACON Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.
FRANCIS BACON The place of justice is a hallowed place.
FRANCIS BACON If we do not maintain Justice, Justice will not maintain us.
FRANCIS BACON Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased...
FRANCIS BACON It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
FRANCIS BACON Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
FRANCIS BACON Ill Fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not.
FRANCIS BACON He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great ent...
FRANCIS BACON Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.
FRANCIS BACON Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, ...
FRANCIS BACON Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize...
FRANCIS BACON Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.
FRANCIS BACON A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.
FRANCIS BACON A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
FRANCIS BACON Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
FRANCIS BACON In charity there is no excess.
FRANCIS BACON That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactl...
FRANCIS BACON If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient i...
FRANCIS BACON Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council thoug...
FRANCIS BACON The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, because the office of medicine is but to tune the ...
FRANCIS BACON Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images...
FRANCIS BACON In every great time there is some one idea at work which is more powerful than any other, and which ...
FRANCIS BACON Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity discovers vice, adversity discovers virtue.
FRANCIS BACON The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.
FRANCIS BACON There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
FRANCIS BACON Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.
FRANCIS BACON Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.
FRANCIS BACON It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringe...
FRANCIS BACON I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this u...
FRANCIS BACON Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which...
FRANCIS BACON Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure kno...
ROGER BACON Anger makes dull men witty -- but it keeps them poor.
FRANCIS BACON He that gives good advice builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example builds with b...
FRANCIS BACON There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself,...
FRANCIS BACON Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
FRANCIS BACON They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils.
FRANCIS BACON Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
FRANCIS BACON People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingraine...
FRANCIS BACON God's first creature, which was light.
FRANCIS BACON Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.
FRANCIS BACON Look to make your course regular, that men may know beforehand what they may expect.
FRANCIS BACON The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
FRANCIS BACON