C.M. Bacon Quotes

The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.

When a profit-seeking company proposes to take citizens' private land away for its own gain, people should stand up for their rights.

The calendar is intolerable to all wisdom, the horror of all astronomy, and a laughing stock from a mathematician's point of view.

All science requires mathematics. [Editors' summary of Bacon's idea, not Bacon's wording.]

One man alone had really known the sciences, namely, Robert, Bishop of Lincoln.

The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend.

This world's a bubble.

... we can bear with great philosophy the sufferings of others, especially if we do not actually see them.

The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.

He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many.

Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.

To spend too much time in studies is sloth.

Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity.

They that reverence to much old times are but a scorn to the new.

In revenge a man is but even with his enemy; for it is a princely thing to pardon, and Solomon saith it is the glory of a man to pass over a transgression.

The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.

All bravery stands upon comparisons.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark.

We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.

I don't think people are born artists; I think it comes from a mixture of your surroundings, the people you meet, and luck.

Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.

Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.

Studies perfect nature and are perfected still by experience.

... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity.

None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time.

Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man.

If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

When it comes to music, it's my clothes, it's my guitar, it's my voice, it's my song.

When I go home, I try to raise my children with honesty and integrity and teach them to take care of the world and of each other.

I'm very comfortable being married to an extremely strong, opinionated, and driven woman. But I also sit at the head of the table. I have both of those sides to me.

I think everybody reacts to entertainment with a different kind of visceral way, probably mostly based on their own personal experiences.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

The folly of one man is the fortune of another.

They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.

All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness.

A man finds himself seven years older the day after his marriage.

Time is the greatest innovator.

Time is the author of authors.

Friends are thieves of time.

I'd really like to get the girl, shoot the gun, drive the car, have fun. I even have these kind of action dreams, where I'm the action guy.

I've been in silly movies and romantic movies and historic movies.

... we see the poor as a mass of shadow, painted in one flat grey wash, at the remote edges of our sunshine.

A teacher's hardest lesson is to limit his explanation to the minimum.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.