A small family is soon provided for. [ Proverb ]
A brother is a friend provided by nature. [ Legouvé père ]
He who hath money and capers is provided for Lent. [ Proverb ]
I can believe anything, provided it is incredible. [ Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Grey ]
Let the universe perish, provided I have my revenge! [ Cyrano ]
Let our friends perish, provided our enemies fall along with them. [ Gr. and Lat. Proverb, quoted by Cicero to condemn it ]
Sufficiently provided from within, he has need of little from without. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe of the poet ]
Let our friends perish, provided that our enemies fall at the same time. [ Cicero ]
We know God easily, provided we do not constrain ourselves to define Him. [ Joubert ]
No other protection is wanting, provided you are under the guidance of prudence. [ Juvenal ]
Better is little, provided it is your own, than an abundance of borrowed capital. [ Benjamin Franklin ]
When I lived, I provided for everything but death; now I must die, and am unprepared. [ Caesar Borgia ]
Slight sorrow for sin is sufficient, provided it at the same time produces amendment. [ Colton ]
Curiosity in children Nature has provided to remove the ignorance they were born with. [ Locke ]
Men live best upon small means. Nature has provided for all, if they only knew how to use her gifts. [ Claudianus ]
Lord, what music hast thou provided for thy saints in heaven, when thou affordest bad men such music on earth! [ Izaak Walton ]
To judge human character rightly, a man may sometimes have very small experience, provided he has a very large heart. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. [ Addison ]
Science is a good piece of furniture for a man to have in an upper chamber, provided he has commonsense on the ground floor. [ O. W. Holmes ]
A woman is never displeased if we please several other women, provided she is preferred: it is so many more triumphs for her. [ Ninon de Lenclos ]
Love is everything; love is the great fact. What matters the lover? What matters the flagon, provided one has the intoxication? [ A. de Musset ]
Millions of people are provided with their thoughts as with their clothes; authors, printers, booksellers, and newsmen stand, in relation to their minds, simply as shoemakers and tailors stand to their bodies. [ G. A. Sala ]
If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world! [ Hosea Ballou ]
The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit. [ Addison ]
From extensive acquaintance with many lands, I unhesitatingly affirm that everywhere God has provided pure water for man, and that the wines drunk are often miserable and dirty. I have found water everywhere that I have traveled, in China and India, Palestine and Egypt, - and everywhere water has been my beverage. [ Thomas Cook, the Tourist ]
The dramatist, like the poet, is born, not made. There must be inspiration back of all true and permanent art, dramatic or otherwise, and art is universal: there is nothing national about it. Its field is humanity, and it takes in all the world; nor does anything else afford the refuge that is provided by it from all troubles and all the vicissitudes of life. [ William Winter ]