Quotes By Francis Bacon

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Friends are thieves of time.

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws.