Bacon Quotes

Words, when written, crystallize history; their very structure gives permanence to the unchangeable past. - Francis Bacon Sr.

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

Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less. - Francis Bacon Sr.

With our increasing numbers, if there was a fire, if there was a problem, our concern was whether we could move people out if they were not perfectly aligned against the wall. - Carl Bacon

Wise men make more opportunities than they find. - Francis Bacon Sr.

Who then to frail mortality shall trust,/ But limns the water, or but writes in dust. - Francis Bacon

Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much. - Francis Bacon

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. - Francis Bacon Sr.

Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb. - Francis Bacon Sr.