Francis Bacon Quotes About Elders

Quotes about: Elders

• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Travel, School, Journey

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

• He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Men, Answers

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

• Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

  Francis Bacon

  Country, School, Language

  'Essays' (1625) 'Of Travel'

• A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Men, Young, Elders

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all.

  Francis Bacon

  Wise, Children, Mean

  Essays "Of Marriage and the Single Life" (1625) See Punch 1

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