Ready

Famous quotes containing the word ready:

“For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happen’d to break off
I’ th’ middle of his speech, or cough,
H’ had hard words ready to show why,
And tell what rules he did it by;”
—Samuel Butler (1612–1680)

“Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.”
—Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)