"Death never takes the wise man by surprise,……" — Jean de La Fontaine

More Always Ready Quotes

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• We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to discover, from… — Daniel J. Boorstin
• I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. — Winston Churchill
• Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious… — Hendrik Willem van Loon
• Anyone whose needs are small seems threatening to the rich, because he's always ready to escape their control. — Nicolas Chamfort
• Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be… — Charles Spurgeon
• To converse with You, O King of glory, no third person is needed, You are always ready in the Sacrament… — Teresa of Avila
• The slothful are always ready to engage in idle talk of what will be done tomorrow, and every day after. — John Lyly
• I have accumulated a wealth of knowledge in innumerable spheres and enjoyed it as an always ready instrument for exercising… — Richard Goldschmidt
• That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground. — Mark Twain
• Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious… — Charles E. Burchfield
• In the midst of difficulties we are always ready to seize an advantage, we may extricate ourselves from misfortune. — Sun Tzu
• Some men never seem to grow old. Always active in thought, always ready to adopt new ideas, they are never… — William Shakespeare

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