Quote of Francis Bacon - Age appears to be best in...
Biography - Francis Bacon:
English philosopher and statesman.
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1561 - Died: 1626
Period:
17th century
16th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
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.
See also...
Quotes about trust:
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Quotes about friendship:
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
It is the fool's misfortune to fail in obtaining the position, the employment, the neighbourhood, and the circle of friends that suit him.
Quotes about wine:
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.
Francis Bacon also said...
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