Francis Bacon
English philosopher, essayist, statesman, and jurist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
For words are but the images of matter; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture.
—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, essayist, statesman, and jurist, The Advancement of Learning, 1605
Posted on March 2, 2004 at 11:51 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but in love.
—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, essayist, statesman, and jurist, Essays, 1625
Posted on April 8, 1998 at 12:43 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, essayist, statesman, and jurist, Essays, "Of Discourse"
Posted on July 4, 2002 at 1:53 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, essayist, statesman, and jurist, Essays
Posted on August 16, 2001 at 10:07 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order.
—Francis Bacon, English philosopher, essayist, statesman, and jurist, Essays
Posted on April 24, 2002 at 3:50 PM
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