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.)

    “In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.”
    —H.L. (Henry Lewis)

    “But that two-handed engine at the door
    Stands ready to smite once, and smites no more.”
    Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is pass’d”
    —John Milton (1608–1674)