Preparing Combat Ready

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

“Most men would feel shame if caught preparing with their own hands precisely such a dinner, whether of animal or vegetable food, as is every day prepared for them by others. Yet till this is otherwise we are not civilized, and, if gentlemen and ladies, are not true men and women. This certainly suggests what change is to be made.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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

“Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.”
—William Blake (1757–1827)