Famous quotes containing the word ready:
“Dont be so ready to defy everybody. Act as if you expected to have your own way, not as if you expected to be ordered about. The way to get on as a lady is the same as the way to get on as a servant: youve got to know your place.”
—George Bernard Shaw (18561950)
“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbours wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocencethat sort of innocence. With the result that were now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”
—Aldous Huxley (18941963)
“Breaking free from the delicious security of mother love can be a painful rupture for either mother or son. Some boys cant do it. Some mothers cant let it happen because they know the boy is not ready to leave her; others are simply not ready to give up their sons.”
—Frank Pittman (20th century)