Logo
Quote by Francis Bacon
Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and ol

Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

Other quotes by Francis Bacon

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Atheism
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote

If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient in them, we shall end in certainties. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Certainty
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Revenge
Author
Francis Bacon
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders. – Ronald Reagan

Category:
Age

Theres a very small group of elite actresses who are my age, who people want to work with. Its not easy to get a good job with good actors. – Amanda Peet

Category:
Age

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. – Anais Nin

Category:
Age

At twenty years of age the will reigns at thirty, the wit and at forty, the judgment. – Benjamin Franklin

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

I didnt finish my dress until about three days before my wedding – I had the flu and was stitching it from my bed. And the tulle came back from India all brown. We had to wash it for hours, but that didnt dissuade me from wearing it. – Georgina Chapman

Category:
wedding

Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. – Thomas Jefferson

Category:
Fear

Heres what the right-wing has in, theres no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes. – Janeane Garofalo

Category:
Fear

Beauty is grace and confidence. Ive learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me. – Lindsay Lohan

Category:
Beauty