Famous Quotes and Quotations by Sir Francis Bacon
1. Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home.
2. Discretion in speech is more than eloquence.
3. Houses are built to live in, more than to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had.
4. In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior.
5. Knowledge itself is power.
6. Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.
7. Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.
8. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
9. They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
10. Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will
make it the most agreeable.
Famous Quotes and Quotations by Napoleon Bonaparte
1. History is the version of past events that people
have decided to agree upon.
2. Take time to deliberate, but when the time
for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
3. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
4. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
5. Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
6. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
7. If you wish to be a success in the world,
promise everything, deliver nothing.
8. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
9. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Famous Quote by Sir Thomas Browne
1. Be substantially great in thyself, and more than thou appearest unto others.
2. There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.