Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

    “Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”
    —Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

    “The combat ended for want of combatants.”
    —Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)

    “There are things you just can’t do in life. You can’t beat the phone company, you can’t make a waiter see you until he’s ready to see you, and you can’t go home again.”
    —Bill Bryson (b. 1951)