Francis Bacon

(527 votes)   Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(505 votes)   For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(481 votes)   That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(311 votes)   The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship.

Sir Francis Bacon

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(280 votes)   It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(276 votes)   Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(267 votes)   Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(257 votes)   Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(230 votes)   Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(202 votes)   Consistency is the foundation of virtue.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(195 votes)   In charity there is no excess.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(191 votes)   Riches are for spending.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(188 votes)   It was prettily devised of Aesop, ''The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise! ''

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(178 votes)   Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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(174 votes)   Cure the disease and kill the patient.

Francis Bacon
1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman

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