Contents
-AUTHOR INDEX -KEYWORD INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| |
|
NUMBER:
|
2084 |
|
AUTHOR:
|
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) |
|
QUOTATION:
|
Young men are fitter to invent, than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business;… Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and that, which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them, like an unruly horse, that will neither stop nor turn. Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. |
|
ATTRIBUTION:
|
FRANCIS BACON, “Of Youth and Age,” essay 42, The Works of Francis Bacon, ed. Basil Montagu, vol. 1, p. 48 (1844). Based on the 1625 edition but with modernized spelling. |
|
SUBJECTS:
|
Youth |
| |
