Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or number:
“Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“If I could live as a tree, as a river, as the moon, as the sun, as a star, as the earth, as a rock, I would. ...Writing permits me to experience life as any number of strange creations.”
—Alice Walker (b. 1944)