C.M. Bacon Quotes

Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.

As a speculator you must embrace disorder and chaos.

I always wanted, and still aspire, to be something more than just one thing, just one performance.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Everybody's got bills to pay. Sometimes you see people just go straight for the money, and that's disappointing.

The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth.

By far the best proof is experience.

Acorns were good until bread was found.

He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

It is a great happiness when men's professions and their inclinations accord.

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.

It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.

For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come.

I have to hope that my instincts will do the right thing, because I can't erase what I have done. And if I drew something first, then my paintings would be illustrations of drawings.

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures.

Judges ought above all to remember the conclusion of the Roman Twelve Tables :The supreme law of all is the weal [weatlh/ well-being] of the people.

The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds.

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

Truth is a good dog; but always beware of barking too close to the heels of an error, lest you get your brains kicked out.

The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays

Several generations of slum environment will produce a slum heredity.

The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

Music is a soundtrack for your life. You hear some tune and you just get swept right back to that point in your life.

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.

I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open.

Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees.

As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time.

Let no one think or maintain that a person can search too far or be too well studied in either the book of God's word or the book of God's works.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

I'm always happier and a better actor when I can really lose myself in a character and become somebody else.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

We all have the defects of our qualities.

God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side of the grave.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

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.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.