Famous quotes containing the word ready:
“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”
—Gaston Bachelard (18841962)
“Face troubles from their birth, for tis too late to cure
When long delay has given the evil strength.
Haste then; postpone not to the coming hour: tomorrow
Hell be less ready whos not ready now.”
—Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
“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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