Francis Bacon Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

  Francis Bacon

  Birthday, Time, Men

• Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

  Francis Bacon

  Retirement, Wine, Old Friends

  Francis Bacon, William Rawley (1859). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works”, p.139

• Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  Francis Bacon

  Marriage, Wedding, Men

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Marriage and the Single Life'

• God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Garden, Perfection

  Francis Bacon, John Milton (2010). “Essays, Civil and Moral & the New Atlantis by Francis Bacon: Aeropagitica & Tractate of Education by John Milton, Religio Medici by Sir Thomas Browne”, p.117, Cosimo, Inc.

• I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.

  Francis Bacon

  Dark, Decision, Age

• He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.

  Francis Bacon

  Age, Plot, Decay

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

  Francis Bacon

  Knowledge, Accomplishment, Age

  Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath (2011). “The Works of Francis Bacon”, p.532, Cambridge University Press

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

  Francis Bacon

  Life, Birthday, Age

  "The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays, Apophthegms, Wisdom of the Ancients, New Atlantis, and Life of Henry the Seventh".

• A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.

  Francis Bacon

  Inspiring, Travel, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361

• He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Age, Tasks

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.69, 谷月社

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

  Francis Bacon

  Memories, Men, Names

  1626 From his will.

• Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Imagination

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361

• The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages

  Francis Bacon

  Christian, Book, Knowledge

  Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent (1999). “Selected Philosophical Works”, p.47, Hackett Publishing

• Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust.

  Francis Bacon

  Learning, Years, Age

  Francis Bacon (2015). “Bacon's Essays: Top Essays”, p.103, 谷月社

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