| "There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that." »Donald J. Adams |
| "Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic." »Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky |
| "Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come." »Bruce Lee |
| "Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue." »Giuseppe Garibaldi |
| "Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat." »Dwight D Eisenhower |
| "God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things." »Saint Augustine |
| "A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other." »George Jean Nathan |
| "We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it." »Will Rogers |
| "I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come." »Abraham Lincoln |
| "Before everything else, getting ready is the secret of success." »Henry Ford |
| "With you I should love to live, with you be ready to die." »Horace |
| "We are ready for any unforeseen event that may or may not occur." »Dan Quayle |
| "Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught." »Winston Churchill |
| "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." »E. M. Forster |
| "The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you." »Kin Hubbard |
| "People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there." »Bob Robert Alan Edwards |
| "What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen" »Evelyn Waugh |
| "Death is a friend of ours and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home." »Francis Bacon |
| "ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief." »Publilius Syrus |
| "ready money works great cures." »French Proverb |
| "Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you." »William Blake |
| "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes." »Benjamin Disraeli |
| "The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience." »Emily Elizabeth Dickinson |
| "There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." »Benjamin Franklin |
| "I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves." »Edward Morgan Forster |
| "The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action." »John Dewey |
| "One never knows what each day is going to bring. The important thing is to be open and ready for it." »Henry Moore |
| "I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother." »Artemus Ward |
| "No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it." »Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| "We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys." »Eric Hoffer |
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