Providence

Famous quotes containing the word providence:

    “Who can ... guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “I don’t believe in providence and fate, as a technologist I am used to reckoning with the formulae of probability.”
    —Max Frisch (1911–1991)

    “Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon;
    The world was all before them, where to choose
    Their place of rest, and Providence their guide;
    They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow
    Through Eden took their solitary way.”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)