With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too

Image by Lorenzo Pasqualis via FlickrNo man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger – It is the heart that makes a man rich – He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has. – Henry Ward Beecher




Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them. – Francis Bacon



Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much and wants more. – Charles Caleb Colton



Money doesn’t buy friends but it allows a better class of enemies. – Lord Mancroft



A rich man is one who isn’t afraid to ask the salesman to show him something cheaper. – Ladies Home Journal



With money in your pocket, you are wise, and you are handsome, and you sing well too. – Jewish Proverb

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Prisoners of Thought

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A man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner. – Lord Halifax




When we deliberate it is about means and not ends. – Aristotle



Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth – more than ruin, even more than death. – Bertrand Russell



A man would do well to carry a pencil in his pocket and write down the thoughts of the moment. Those that come unsought are commonly the most valuable and should be secured, because they seldom return. – Francis Bacon





People everywhere enjoy believing things that they know are not true. It spares them the ordeal of thinking for themselves and taking responsibilities for what they know. – Brooks Atkinson



Secret study, silent thought is, after all, the mightiest agent in human affairs. – William Ellery Channing



Deliberate with caution, but act with decision and promptness. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Cunning Men Pass for Wise

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Francis Bacon – 1561-1626 - Part Two

English philosopher. The first credited with saying, "knowledge is power.” Bacon established the principles of the inductive method.

Alonso of Aragon was wond to say in commendation of age, that age apears to be best in four things – old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

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

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

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other islands, but a continent that joins to them.

Fortune is like the market, where many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall.

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

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

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready mand, and writing an exact man.

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Francis Bacon – 1561-1626

English philosopher. The first credited with saying, "knowledge is power.” Bacon established the principles of the inductive method.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

The are ill discoverers that think there is no land when they can see nothing but sea.

The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it.
Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper.

Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, “stay a while, that we may make an end the sooner.”

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