Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “They are preparing to begin again:
    Problems, new pennant up the flagpole
    In a predicated romance.”
    —John Ashbery (b. 1927)

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

    “The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour’s wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence—that sort of innocence. With the result that we’re now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
    —Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)