Top 17 Improvident Quotes

#1. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live.

Winston Churchill

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#2. Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but to help the improvident, drinking class is clear generosity, so that the donor has a right to be warmed by a selfish pride and count on a most flattering obituary.

George Ade

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#3. My dear, the truth must be spoken. I declare I don't think I ever saw a young woman so improvident as you are. When are you to begin to think about getting married if you don't do it now?"
"I shall never begin to think about it, till I buy my wedding clothes.

Anthony Trollope

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#4. She thought that Fontley had suffered as much from a negligent mistress as from an improvident master.

Georgette Heyer

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#5. There is a steady check in an old civilisation upon the fertility of the abler classes: the improvident and unambitious are those who chiefly keep up the breed. So the race gradually deteriorates, becoming in each successive generation less fit for a high civilisation.

Francis Galton

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#6. All things will be clear and distinct to the man who does not hurry; haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

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#7. Haste is blind and improvident.

Livy

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#8. The proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe.

Terry Pratchett

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#9. As an exercise of raw judicial power, the Court perhaps has authority to do what it does today; but, in my view, its judgment is an improvident and extravagant exercise of the power of judicial review that the Constitution extends to this Court.

Byron White

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#10. We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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#11. I'm improvident: I live in the moment when I'm happy

Edith Wharton

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#12. Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.

Amos Oz

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#13. You don't see heroism, humanity and hope like you do in a horror story. Horror celebrates the kind of friendship that keeps you standing shoulder to shoulder with someone even when the world is falling apart around you.

Alexander Gordon Smith

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#14. No further seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.

Thomas Gray

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#15. Nothing that happens in the life of the God Girl is failure; everything is an opportunity.

Hayley DiMarco

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#16. The word "journal" has in its root the word jour, French for day. A journey was the distance that could be traveled in a day. A journal, therefore, consisted of the writing one recorded per day.

Sheila Bender

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#17. The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: I give you my life in this rose.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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