Francis Bacon Quotes

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

We live in a world of constant juxtaposition between joy that's possible and pain that's all too common. We hope for love and success and abundance, but we never quite forget that there is always lurking the possibility of disaster.

In prosperity remember adversity.

The good things of prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

You'd never be able to appreciate what's good in life if you've never experienced the bad.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

In difficult times, it's so hard to look around and to see what to be grateful for.

A man is insensible to the relish of prosperity 'til he has tasted adversity.

So you have to take the good with the bad.

There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

Whatever life throws at me I'll take it and be grateful for it as well.

In the scriptures, we are told you can't really understand happiness unless you understand sadness. You don't know pleasure if you don't know pain. It's part of life. So can you learn something from somebody who has gone from success to success to success? I don't think so.

I still have my bad days when I think I'm not getting everything I deserve. But those pass quickly once my Mother gets on the phone and says, 'listen, we used to eat rocks and walk 80 miles a day to school.

Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Happiness may exist under all conditions, given the right kind of people and sufficient economic security for adequate food and shelter.