Quotes by Francis Bacon

A bachelor’s life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.

People usually think according to their inclinations, speak according to their learning and ingrained opinions, but generally act according to custom.

He that hath knowledge spareth his words.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.