C.M. Bacon Quotes

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony.

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.

The business that people do in LA on the social level is amazing. You go to a restaurant, bump into this guy or that guy. The next day you get a call, and they want you in their movie.

I think we all have a lot of darkness in our bellies. As an actor, the challenge of tapping into that, reaching down into that sadness or anger, is very therapeutic.

There is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Observation and experiment for gathering material, induction and deduction for elaborating it: these are are only good intellectual tools.

O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.

Whatever you can, count.

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors.

Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice.

... mathematics is absolutely necessary and useful to the other sciences.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy.

The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?

Critics can be your most important friend. I don't read criticism of my stuff only because when it's bad, it's rough-and when it's good, it's not good enough.

A man who contemplates revenge keeps his wounds green.

Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

Parents who wish to train up their children in the way they should go must go in the way in which they would have their children go.

The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge.

A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt.

There's the most resistance to an actor singing. It's like I'm being disloyal to my industry.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

If I sit and daydream, the images rush by like a succession of colored slides.

The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull.

That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.

I do struggle with how much and in which way, as an artist or celebrity, that you voice your political views.

Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection.

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.

Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God.

Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.

For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.

Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.

When a bee stings, she dies. She cannot sting and live. When men sting, their better selves die. Every sting kills a better instinct. Men must not turn bees and kill themselves in stinging others.

When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.