C.M. Bacon Quotes

They who derive their worth from their ancestors resemble potatoes, the most valuable part of which is underground.

The worst men often give the best advice.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

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

the serpent if it wants to become the dragon must eat itself.

Wonder is the seed of knowledge

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

To ask the proper question is half of knowing.

I have a natural swagger.

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.

We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.

The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

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

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

The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding.

Laws and Institutions Must Go Hand in Hand with the Progress of the Human Mind.

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

God's first creature, which was light.

In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous and those who are liars.

It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.

A man is crazy who writes a secret in any other way than one which will conceal it from the vulgar.

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

I loathe my own face, and I've done self-portraits because I've had nobody else to do.

Before Footloose, the things I'd done weren't cute. In Diner I was an alcoholic.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

The greatest justice in life is that your vision and looks tend to go simultaneously.

People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?

We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual.

The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

Atheism leads a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation: all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue.

I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime.

Mathematics is the gate and key to science.

Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

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

A little learning is a dangerous thing but none at all is fatal.

The conquest of learning is achieved through the knowledge of languages.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

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

[Science is] the labor and handicraft of the mind.

Truth can never be reached by just listening to the voice of an authority.