« All Provision Quotes · Ambrose Bierce's Page
Provision Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly…
- NOBLEMAN, n. Nature's provision for wealthy American minds ambitious to incur social distinction and suffer high life.
- IMPROVIDENCE, n. Provision for the needs of to-day from the revenues of to-morrow.
More Provision Quotes
- Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
- The notion that Congress can change the meaning given a constitutional provision by the Court is subversive of the function of judicial… — Robert Bork
- My belief, for what it is worth, is that city dwellers cannot understand the world. Insulated from reality by complex and expert… — James Buchan
- Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
- And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in… — Sharron Angle
- Every time we sign a treaty with another country, the treaty (should) include prisoner transfer provisions.... Under these provisions, the country in… — Kathleen Brown
- Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times. Princes and potentates, political or industrial,… — George Ellery Hale
- We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people… — Ronald Reagan
- It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus,… — R. H. Tawney
- A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Samuel Johnson
- How wise and how merciful is that provision of nature by which his earthly anchor is usually loosened by many little imperceptible… — Arthur Conan Doyle
- ... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him… — Maria Montessori