Francis Bacon Quotes About Age
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O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy.
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I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment.
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I usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision.
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For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.
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I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.
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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.
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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
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A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
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He that plots to be the only figure among ciphers [zeros], is the decay of the whole age.
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Francis Bacon
- Born: January 22, 1561
- Died: April 9, 1626
- Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor
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