Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit fo... -Francis Bacon

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

Francis Bacon , Philosopher
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Francis Bacon was an English philosopher, statesman, and essayist, known as one of the pioneers of the scientific method and his influential works on philosophy.

Francis Bacon Quotes to Explore

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is....
Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience....
No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic, and certainly, to a kingdom or estate, a just and honourable war is the t...
Wise men make more opportunities than they find....
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....
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion....
Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses....
By indignities men come to dignities....
Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men....
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures....

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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot ...
The Beatles were from Liverpool. It's a hard town. The Stones weren't the hard men. They just dressed up. The Beatles were the hard men....
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good....
It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not expect holiness from one another, but from God ...
I've always believed that no officer's life, regardless of rank, is of such great value to his country that he should seek safety in the rear... Offic...
More men fail through lack of purpose than lack of talent....
While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not ...
Politics is the diversion of trivial men who, when they succeed at it, become important in the eyes of more trivial men....
Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so....
Women may fall when there's no strength in men....