I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Quote by Francis Bacon

Topics: Age Quotes, Funny Quotes

Time is the measure of business.

Time is the measure of business.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he...

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he...

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and...

For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and...

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

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

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

Knowledge and human power are synonymous.

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 joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

Age will not be defied.

Age will not be defied.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the...

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the...

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him...

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him...

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot...

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot...

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...

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job...

The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to,...

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to,...

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the...

Write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought for are commonly the...