Preparing Combat Ready

Famous quotes containing the words preparing, combat and/or ready:

“Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.”
—Socrates (469–399 B.C.)

“If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections.... Males are biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”
—Newt Gingrich (b. 1943)

“And adepts in the speaking trade
Keep a cough by them ready made.”
—Charles Churchill (1731–1764)