Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“There is also something excellent in every audience,—the capacity of virtue. They are ready to be beatified.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“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)

“The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.”
—François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)