Quote #105
As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.
More from Francis Bacon
- It is the nature of extreme self-lovers, as they will set an house on fire, and it were but to roast their eggs.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
- Be true to thyself, as thou be not false to others.
- Affected dispatch is one of the most dangerous things to business that can be. It is like that, which the physicians call predigestion, or …
- Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.
- Seeming wise men may make shift to get opinion; but let no man choose them for employment; for certainly you were better take for business,…
- Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.
- Cure the disease and kill the patient.