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 Quotes
Truth comes out of error more readily than out of confusion.
Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.
Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God.
There are some other that account wife and children but as bills of charges.
He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue, or mischief.
The desire for power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire for knowledge in excess caused man to fall; but in charity there is no excess, neither can man or angels come into danger by it.
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Surely, Princes had need, in tender Matters, and Ticklish Times, to beware what they say; Especially in these short Speeches, which flie abroad like Darts, and are thought to be shot out of their secret Intentions.
Measure not dispatch by the time of sitting, but by the advancement of business.
