Provision Quotes
238 quotes by 195 authors
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Education is the best provision for old age.
— Aristotle
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The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial review; and it…
— Robert Bork
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My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert systems of provision…
— James Buchan
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Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that…
— Sharron Angle
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Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in which the crimes…
— Kathleen Brown
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Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial, equally with men…
— George Ellery Hale
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We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world…
— Ronald Reagan
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It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still…
— R. H. Tawney
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A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.
— Samuel Johnson
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How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible tugs, until his…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
— Maria Montessori
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I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight.
— Mark Twain
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I consider the government of the United States as interdicted by the Constitution from intermeddling with religious institutions, their doctrines, discipline, or exercises. This results…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Worship is a believer's response to God's revelation of Himself. It is expressing wonder, awe, and gratitude for the worthiness, the greatness, and the goodness…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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When I do things my way, I exhaust pleasure very quickly. It is not that Christianity has failed to teach me how to delight in…
— Ravi Zacharias
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If we do not halt this steady process of building commissions and regulatory bodies and the special legislation like huge inverted pyramids over every one…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the…
— Jerry Bridges
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If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year…
— Abraham Lincoln
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor…
— Abraham Lincoln
Who Wrote These Provision Quotes
195 authors contributed a total of 238 Provision Quotes, led by these top contributors: