C.M. Bacon Quotes
It does get old to have to always be a monkey in a zoo. I don't know what it's like any more to be anonymous.
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.
A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out.
To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men.
It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed.
But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.
Do not wonder if the common people speak more truly than those above them: they speak more safely.
I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it.
Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.
All of our actions take their hue from the complexion of the heart, as landscapes their variety from light.
This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.
It has well been said that the arch-flatterer, with whom all petty flatterers have intelligence, is a man's self.
Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.
I don't really worry so much about image. I try to just live my own life, my personal life, to my own sense of morality. In terms of the kinds of characters that I play, well, they could be anything.
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.
Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.
Let every student of nature take this as his rule, that whatever the mind seizes upon with particular satisfaction is to be held in suspicion.
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason
