To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. There be three parts of business — the preparation, the debate or examination, and the perfection; whereof, if you look for despatch, let the middle only be the work of many, and the first and last the work of few.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Francis Bacon Quotes

To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. There be three parts of business — the preparation, the debate...

To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. There be three parts of business — the preparation, the debate...

To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. There be three parts of business — the preparation, the debate...

To choose time is to save time; and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. There be three parts of business — the preparation, the debate...