Age will not be defied.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Topics: Age Quotes

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground.

For also knowledge itself is power.

For also knowledge itself is power.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages...

Out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages...

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of...

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of...

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground

Important families are like potatoes. The best parts are underground

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our...

The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our...

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

The place of justice is a hallowed place.

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

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

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom...

Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense...

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense...

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

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

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

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

Money is a good servant but a bad master.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.