Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
Quote by Francis Bacon
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Friendship increases in visiting friends, but in visiting them seldom.
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Francis Bacon Quotes
- There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
- Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.
- Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
- Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.
- A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
- He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.
- If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics.
- Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
Best Quotes
- What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.
- Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
- I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.
- King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.
- But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.
- To be able to sit in Donald Trump's apartment and talk about the future of corporate real estate was amazing.
- And let me make this very clear - unlike President Obama, I will not raise taxes on the middle class. As president, I will protect the sanctity of life. I will honor the institution of marriage. And I will guarantee America's first liberty: the freedom of religion.
- My second husband believed I had such a fickle attitude to friendship that each Friday he would update the list of my 'Top Ten' friends in the manner of a Top Of The Pops chart countdown.
- Women's virtue is frequently nothing but a regard to their own quiet and a tenderness for their reputation.