Top 30 Provident Quotes
#1. Age is provident because the less future we have the more we fear it.
Ambrose Bierce
#2. Women have no wilderness in them They are provident instead Content in the tight hot cell of their hearts To eat dusty bread.
Louise Bogan
#3. Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.
Edmund Burke
#4. A very prosperous people, flushed with great victories and successes, are seldom so pious, so humble, so just, or so provident as to perpetuate their happiness.
Francis Atterbury
#5. I kind of had my life planned out for me. I'd be married at some point, have, you know, 1.5 children, and be a principal possibly one day. But I think that that was kind of my problem. I allowed myself to plan out my life and didn't let provident direction guide my life.
Clay Aiken
#6. Self-love is as protective as the Deity; Disenchantment is as perspicacious as a surgeon; Experience is as provident as a mother. Such are the theologic virtues of marriage.
Honore De Balzac
#7. The idiosyncrasies of human preferences seem to reflect a competition between the impetuous limbic grasshopper and the provident prefrontal ant within each of us.
Walter Mischel
#8. It seems I have always been fortunate to be in a certain provident, which must be my sole skill, and worth, and luck. [p. 138]
Chang-rae Lee
#9. Hung on our driving boat, I saw your brother, Most provident in peril, bind himself, - -
William Shakespeare
#10. There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper; in being both bountiful and provident.
Phyllis McGinley
#11. Capital is not a free gift of God or of nature. It is the outcome of a provident restriction of consumption on the part of man. It is created and increased by saving and maintained by the abstention from dissaving.
Ludwig Von Mises
#12. In fiction, every treachery and setback appears to serve some end: the characters learn and grow and come into their own. In life, it is not always clear that the hijacking of our plans is quite so provident or benign.
Azar Nafisi
#13. No laws, however stringent, can make the idle industrious, the thriftless provident, or the drunken sober.
Samuel Smiles
#14. Nature, being a wise and provident lady, governs her parts very wisely, methodically, and orderly: Also, she is very industrious and hates to be idle, which makes her employ her time as a good housewife doth.
Margaret Cavendish
#15. The honey-bee's great ambition is to be rich, to lay up great stores, to possess the sweet of every flower that blooms. She is more than provident. Enough will not satisfy her, she must have all she can get by hook or crook.
John Burroughs
#16. When a woman tells you she's had a dream about you, you know what's going on, don't you? It means she likes you. It's her way of telling you that you're on her mind. Really on her mind.
David Gilmour
#18. You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.
Corey Feldman
#19. I don't seek to be in the tabloids but I suppose sometimes I go out and I'm wearing something and they take a picture and it's in.
Joan Collins
#21. You cannot simply put more money into the same system and get better results, so we will need to reform and innovate in the delivery of education.
Rob McKenna
#22. You know that great prejudice exists against all successful business enterprise - the more successful, the greater the prejudice.
John D. Rockefeller
#23. Walk with the rich Walk with the poor Learn from everybody That's what life is for.
Eric Bibb
#24. Whether this desire for sex is moderate or not, it is usually called lust.
Baruch Spinoza
#25. Some artists think every woman is a groupie, and that every dude is a sucker, and I never looked at people like that.
Immortal Technique
#27. My roommate is a 240-pound homicidal hermit. For dinner he's fixing me a dead fox he scraped off the highway near Ponchatoula, and after that we're taking a leaky tin boat out on a windy lake to spy on some semi-retarded fishermen. Don't you wish you were here?
Carl Hiaasen
#28. As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
Victoria Principal
#29. If you are always thirsty for the knowledge, you are one blessed person for sure!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#30. I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica.
Elliott Erwitt