Quote by Francis Bacon
Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. - Francis B

Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge fitter for execution than for counsel and more fit for new projects than for settled business. – Francis Bacon

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Business
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Images also help me find and realise ideas. I look at hundreds of very different, contrasting images and I pinch details from them, rather like people who eat from other people – Francis Bacon

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Imagination
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Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6 – Bible

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Conversation

Its better to keep your mouth shut and give the impression that youre stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. – Rami Belson

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Conversation

Its a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney? – Eileen Aitkins

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Conversation

The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing. – Anon.

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Conversation

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A conversation goes sometimes into personal things and thats nicer. You look to each other and you have a different picture, you get into a relationship. – Maximilian Schell

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relationship

The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

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Being in Love

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see. – Hillary Clinton

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Truth

No matter how old and glorious the models, sad indeed is the woman who sees fashion as a means of self-expression rather than an agent of social control. – Julie Burchill

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sad