Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
Francis BaconIt is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.
Francis BaconIf I might control the literature of the household, I would guarantee the well-being of Church and State.
Francis BaconImagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Francis BaconI would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at the Olympic races and said, 'What a dust do I raise,' be verified in them. For so it is that some small observation, and that disturbed sometimes by the instrument, sometimes by the eye, sometimes by the calculation, and which may be owing to some real change in the heaven, raises new heavens and new spheres and circles.
Francis Bacon