Famous quotes containing the words combat and/or ready:
“The combat ended for want of combatants.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“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)