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Imagination Was Given To Man To Compensate Him For What He Is No
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Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a
sense of humor to console him for what he is.
-- Francis Bacon
Related:
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true. -- Francis Baco
A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day
but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made....
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic.
A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health....
There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat in the pa
which is, when that which a man says to another, he lays it as if another had said it to him....
I'd like to buy him for what I think he is worth, and sell him for what he thinks he is worth.
When we treat man as he is, we make him worse than he i
when we treat him as if he already were what he potentially could be, we make him what he should be....
Just ignore him. He has no idea what he's talking about.
No man knows of what stuff he is made until prosperity and ease try him. -- A.P. Gouthey
If God had intended Man to Watch TV, He would have given him Rabbit Ears.