Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
It was well said that envy keeps no holidays.
Francis Bacon
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
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
Holidays
Holiday
Envy
Keeps
Wells
Well
More quotes by Francis Bacon
Fashion is only the attempt to realize art in living forms and social intercourse.
Francis Bacon
The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.
Francis Bacon
Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Francis Bacon
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon
The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.
Francis Bacon
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.
Francis Bacon
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Francis Bacon
By indignities men come to dignities.
Francis Bacon
I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.
Francis Bacon
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon
The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.
Francis Bacon
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
Francis Bacon
Without friends the world is but a wilderness.
Francis Bacon
There is no secrecy comparable to celerity.
Francis Bacon
A good name is like precious ointment it filleth all round about, and will not easily away for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers.
Francis Bacon
Religion brought forth riches, and the daughter devoured the mother.
Francis Bacon
I don't think people are born artists I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.
Francis Bacon
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
Francis Bacon
