Quote

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.

Francis Bacon

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Francis Bacon
Age: 65 †
Born: 1561
Born: January 22
Died: 1626
Died: April 9
Astrologer
Former Lord Chancellor
Judge
Lawyer
Philosopher
Politician
Writer
Francis Bacon Saint Albans
Francis Bacon St. Albans
Franciscus Bacon de Verulamio
Franciscus Baconus de Verulamio
Francis Bacon
1st Viscount St. Alban
Francis
Viscount Saint Alban
Baron of Verulam Bacon
Francis
Viscount St. Albans Verulam
Franciscus Bacon
Francis Bacon de Verulamius
Francis Bacon of Verulam
Francis
Viscount St. Alban
Preserves
Easily
Fame
Fire
Extinguish
May
Kindled
Good
Kindle
Like
Kindles
Preserve

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
I regret not starting to paint earlier...It is one of the few things I do regret.
Francis Bacon
Image
Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature.
Francis Bacon
Image
In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.
Francis Bacon
Image
The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them.
Francis Bacon
Image
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior.
Francis Bacon
Image
The dignity of this end of endowment of man's life with new commodity appeareth by the estimation that antiquity made of such as guided thereunto for whereas founders of states, lawgivers, extirpators of tyrants, fathers of the people, were honoured but with the titles of demigods, inventors ere ever consecrated among the gods themselves.
Francis Bacon
Image
If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.
Francis Bacon
Image
If I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
Francis Bacon
Image
The bee enclosed and through the amber shown Seems buried in the juice which was his own.
Francis Bacon
Image
The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness carefulness into vigorousness vigorousness into guiltlessness guiltlessness into abstemiousness abstemiousness into cleanliness cleanliness into godliness.
Francis Bacon
Image
Custom is the principle magistrate of man's life.
Francis Bacon
Image
Journeys at youth are part of the education but at maturity, are part of the experience.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
Image
Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.
Francis Bacon
Image
To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
Francis Bacon
Image
Innovations, which are the births of time.
Francis Bacon
Image
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
Image
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Francis Bacon
Image
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
Francis Bacon