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"I can believe anything, provided it is incredible." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." »Oscar Wilde
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"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end." »Margaret Thatcher
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"I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill." »Samuel Butler
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"A father is a banker provided by nature." »French Proverb
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"Genius is talent provided with ideals." »William Somerset Maugham
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"For the birds that cannot soar, God has provided low branches." »Turkish Proverb
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"Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic." »Arnold Bennett
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"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards." »Aldous Huxley
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"The fact that I was a bachelor provided two opportunities or two handles that they might get on me, namely, girls or boys." »Vernon A. Walters
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"It is impossible for ideas to compete in the marketplace if no forum for their presentation is provided or available." »Thomas Mann
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"Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is." »Oscar Wilde
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"To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the light." »Coventry Patmore
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"Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it." »Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides." »Saint Thomas Aquinas
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"Death is a really cold Weather, Which can’t be provided. ("La mort est un temps vraiment froid Qu'aucune météo ne prévoit)" »Charles de LEUSSE
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"We can gradually grow into any condition we desire, provided we first make ourselves in habitual mental attitude the person who corresponds to those conditions." »Thomas Troward
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"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them." »La Bruyere
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"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by...religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need." »Harvey Cox
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"Good sense is, of all things among men, the most equally distributed: for every one thinks himself so abundantly provided with it, that those even who are the most difficult to satisfy in everything else, do not usually desire a larger measure of this quality than they already possess." »Rene Descartes, Discourse on Method
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"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity." »Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have right that these wants should be provided for, including the want of a sufficient restraint upon their passions." »Edmund Burke
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"The self-explorer, whether he wants to or not, becomes the explorer of everything else. He learns to see himself, but suddenly, provided he was honest, all the rest appears, and it is as rich as he was, and, as a final crowning, richer." »Elias Canetti
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"Working with children with autism has provided me with an opportunity to see the world in a different way. I see them strive to overcome obstacles and persevere, and learn to persevere myself. They are my inspiration." »Clay Aiken
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"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." »Robert Benchley
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"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him." »Paul Eldridge
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"Then he saw also that it matters little what profession, whether of religion or irreligion, a man may make, provided only he follows it out with charitable inconsistency, and without insisting on it to the bitter end. It is in the uncompromisingness with which dogma is held and not in the dogma or want of dogma that the danger lies." »Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh
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"It does not matter much what a man hates provided he hates something." »Samuel Butler
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"Engineering is the science of economy, of conserving the energy, kinetic and potential, provided and stored up by nature for the use of man. It is the business of engineering to utilize this energy to the best advantage, so that there may be the least possible waste." »William A. Smith
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"Man has made some machines that can answer questions provided the facts are profusely stored in them, but we will never be able to make a machine that will ask questions. The ability to ask the right question is more than half the battle of finding the answer." »Thomas J. Watson
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