Famous quotes containing the words evidence and/or prepared:
“I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even for the slightest evidence of kindness; and there is nothing so boorish, savage, inhuman as to appear to be overwhelmed by a favor, let alone unworthy of it.”
—Marcus Tullius Cicero (106–43 B.C.)
“We are prepared for insults, but compliments leave us baffled.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)