Quote

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

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
Hours
Precepts
Happiness
Disposed
Free
Cheerfulness
Best
Minded
Long
Lasting
Meat
Exercise
Sleep
Cheerfully

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know
Francis Bacon
Image
You want accuracy, but not representation. If you know how to make the figuration, it doesn't work. Anything you can make, you make by accident. In painting, you have to know what you do, not how, when you do it.
Francis Bacon
Image
All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.
Francis Bacon
Image
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
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
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
Francis Bacon
Image
Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Francis Bacon
Image
He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.
Francis Bacon
Image
The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer.
Francis Bacon
Image
All will come out in the washing.
Francis Bacon
Image
A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.
Francis Bacon
Image
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
Francis Bacon
Image
Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
Francis Bacon
Image
Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Francis Bacon
Image
The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Francis Bacon
Image
Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight.
Francis Bacon
Image
It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands
Francis Bacon
Image
It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
Francis Bacon
Image
The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
Francis Bacon