Sir Edmund Bacon

Famous quotes containing the words sir, edmund and/or bacon:

    “O Lord! thou knowest how busy I must be this day: if I forget thee, do not thou forget me.”
    —Jacob, Sir Astley (1579–1652)

    “Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.”
    —Sir Edmund Leach (20th century)

    “Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.”
    —Francis Bacon (1561–1626)