Quote

Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn.

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
Grass
Kept
Green
Eye
Nothing
Shorn
Finely
Pleasant

More quotes by Francis Bacon

Image
Nuptial love makes mankind friendly love perfects it but wanton love corrupts and debases it.
Francis Bacon
Image
Praise is the reflection of virtue.
Francis Bacon
Image
The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one.
Francis Bacon
Image
Dreams, and predictions of astrology....ought to serve but for winter talk by the fireside.
Francis Bacon
Image
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
Francis Bacon
Image
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
Francis Bacon
Image
There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Francis Bacon
Image
I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
Francis Bacon
Image
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
Image
The natures and dispositions of men are, not without truth, distinguished from the predominance of the planets.
Francis Bacon
Image
Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
Francis Bacon
Image
The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse.
Francis Bacon
Image
The virtue of prosperity is temperance the virtue of adversity is fortitude.
Francis Bacon
Image
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
Image
What is truth? said jesting Pilate and would not stay for an answer.
Francis Bacon
Image
Art is man added to Nature.
Francis Bacon
Image
It is natural to die as to be born.
Francis Bacon
Image
For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good and this is the foundation of all for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do.
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
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
Francis Bacon