Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
    —Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)

    “And adepts in the speaking trade
    Keep a cough by them ready made.”
    —Charles Churchill (1731–1764)