Preparing Combat Ready

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

    “In preparing the soil for planting, you will need several tools. Dynamite would be a beautiful thing to use, but it would have a tendency to get the dirt into the front-hall and track up the stairs.”
    —Robert Benchley (1889–1945)

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

    “Half the testimony in the Bobbitt case sounded like Sally Jesse Raphael. Juries watch programs like this and are ready to listen.”
    —William Geimer, U.S. law educator. New York Times, p. B18 (January 28, 1994)