Famous quotes containing the word ready:
“Our friends are generally ready to do everything for us, except the very thing we wish them to do.”
—William Hazlitt (17781830)
“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.”
—Eric Hoffer (19021983)
“For rhetoric, he could not ope
His mouth, but out there flew a trope;
And when he happend 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 (16121680)
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