Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Francis Bacon quotes, Francis Bacon sayings, and Francis Bacon proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.Francis Bacon
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Imagination was given to man to compensate for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.Francis Bacon
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There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.Francis Bacon
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.Francis Bacon
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A good conscience is a continual feast.Francis Bacon
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Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.Francis Bacon
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The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.Francis Bacon
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.Francis Bacon
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Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.Francis Bacon
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Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.Francis Bacon
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Gardening is the purest of human pleasures.Francis Bacon
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For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves.Francis Bacon
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.Francis Bacon
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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.Francis Bacon
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In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.Francis Bacon
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When a judge departs from the letter of the law he becomes a lawbreaker.Francis Bacon
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Spouses are great impediments to great enterprises.Francis Bacon
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It is seldom that beautiful persona are otherwise of great virtue.Francis Bacon
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Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more man's nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out.Francis Bacon
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Secrecy in suits goes a great way towards success.Francis Bacon
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To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'Francis Bacon
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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.Francis Bacon
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If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.Francis Bacon
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.Francis Bacon
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If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.Francis Bacon
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Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral.Francis Bacon
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Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God. Francis Bacon
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Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away, and almost all fugitives are of that condition.Francis Bacon
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Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.Francis Bacon