Provide

Famous quotes containing the word provide:

“A man must be sacrificed now and again
To provide for the next generation of men.”
—Amy Lowell (1874–1925)

“Softly sweet in Lydian measures
Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures.
‘War’, he sung, ‘is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.
Never ending, still beginning,
Fighting still, and still destroying;
If the world be worth thy winning,
Think, O think it worth enjoying.
Lovely Thais sits beside thee,
Take the good the Gods provide thee.’”
—John Dryden (1631–1700)

“We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.”
—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)