Francis Bacon

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

It’s the same old story, all you think about is money.

If saving money is wrong, I don’t want to be right!

Somebody said to me, ‘But the Beatles were anti-materialistic.’ That’s a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, ‘Now, let’s write a swimming pool’.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

Money is the best deodorant.

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Budget: a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.

I rob banks because that’s where the money is.

The point is, you can never be too greedy.

Too much money ain’t enough money.

I was so poor growing up, if I wasn’t a boy, I’d have had nothing to play with.

Philanthropic efforts are among the best rewards you can have for a life well lived.

Look, I’m not a rich person. I’m a poor person with Money.

When a fellow says it ain’t the money but the principle of the thing, it’s the money.