Quote #57
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.
More from Francis Bacon
- Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold o…
- Like strawberry wives, that laid two or three great strawberries at the mouth of their pot, and all the rest were little ones.
- Truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion.
- Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say. 'Stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.'
- Truth therefore and utility are here the very same thing:
- Alonso of Aragon was wont to say in commendation of age, that age appears to be best in four things - old wood best to burn, old wine to dr…
- There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and mea…
- Cosmus, Duke of Florence, was wont to say of perfidious friends, that 'We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read tha…