A Quote by Francis Bacon

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.

Francis Bacon

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Business Counsel Execution Fit Fitter Invent Judge More New New Projects People Projects Settled Than Young Young People

Quote Author

Francis Bacon
English - Philosopher
January 22, 1561 - April 9, 1626

If only the fit survive and if the fitter they are the longer they survive, then Volvox must have demonstrated its superb fitness more conclusively than any higher animal ever has.

Joseph Wood Krutch

I think it's a long-time process when you are trying to get fitter and fitter.

Petra Kvitova

I had a job when I was 16 at a gas fitter, which was a bit like a pipe fitter.

Joe Cocker

Energy is connected to physical fitness. One of the reasons I stayed at the top so long is that I was tremendously fit. At 36, I was fitter than most opponents ten years younger.

Garry Kasparov

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Roger Ascham

Shame is a fitter and generally a more effectual punishment for a child than beating.

Samuel Richardson

It's wiser being good than bad; It's safer being meek than fierce: It's fitter being sane than mad.

Robert Browning

There are some people who might have better technique than me, and some may be fitter than me, but the main thing is tactics. With most players, tactics are missing. You can divide tactics into insight, trust, and daring. In the tactical area, I think I just have more than most other players.

Johan Cruyff

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

Henry David Thoreau

There are 50 people fitter than me between the top 70 to 150 in the world. There are some players not as fit as me inside the top 10 in the world. Will fitness help them? I don't think so.

Bernard Tomic

You can be even fitter at 60 than you were at 20.

Lynn Davies

It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched; That after Last returns the First, Though a wide compass round be fetched.

Robert Browning

For one thing, vegetarians are, on average, fitter and trimmer than meat-eaters are, so the best thing that young people who want to look their best can do is to keep meat off their plates.