Francis Bacon quotes

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. " # Questions

" There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. " # Beauty # Excellence # Love

" We cannot command nature except by obeying her. " # Leaders and Leadership # Obedience # Nature

" Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. " # Ability # Freedom # Power

" Imagination was given man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humor to console him for what he is. " # Humor

" Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. " # Friends and Friendship # Death and Dying # Home

" Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. " # Adversity # Fear # Hope

" Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. " # Choice # Habit # Life and Living

" In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy but in passing it over, he is superior. " # Revenge # Friends and Friendship # Enemies

" Hope is a good breakfast but a bad supper. " # Hope # Books - Reading # Rewards