Francis Bacon Age Quotes

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

- Francis Bacon

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.

- Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; Adversity is not without many comforts and hopes.

- Francis Bacon

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils for time is the greatest innovator.

- Francis Bacon

Prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.

- Francis Bacon

Prosperity is not without many fears and distaste; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.

- Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

- Francis Bacon

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.

- Francis Bacon

In youth we learn in age we understand.

- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

- Alexander Hamilton

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

- Soren Kierkegaard

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

Youth is a blunder Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

- Benjamin Disraeli

Youth has no age.

- Pablo Picasso

Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight.

- Phyllis Diller

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

- Paulo Coelho

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

- Joan Collins