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)
“You are the majority—in number and intelligence; therefore you are the force—which is justice. Some are scholars, others are owners; a glorious day will come when the scholars will be owners and the owners scholars. Then your power will be complete, and no man will protest against it.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)