Francis Bacon Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

  Francis Bacon

  Memories, Humor, Men

  Francis Bacon (1962). “Works”

• Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.

  Francis Bacon

  Children, Memories, Men

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.258

• The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

  Francis Bacon

  Memories, Men, Roots

  Francis Bacon (1826). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban and Lord High Chancellor of England: Sylva sylvarum (century IX-X) Physiological remains. Medical remains. Medical receipts. Works moral: Colours of good and evil. Essays of counsels civil and moral. Theological works”, p.70

• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

  Francis Bacon

  Memories, Shapes, Please

• 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.

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