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Fraud is the ready minister of injustice. – Edmund Burke	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. – Dwight D Eisenhower	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. – Donald J. Adams	added by anonymous 14 years ago
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things. – Saint Augustine	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic. – Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. – Giuseppe Garibaldi	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come. – Bruce Lee	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other. – George Jean Nathan	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ambition drove many men to become false to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. – Sallust	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet. – Mae West	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come. – Abraham Lincoln	added by anonymous 14 years ago
People sleep peacably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. – George Orwell	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. – Benjamin Disraeli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Always be ready to speak your mind and a base man will avoid you. – William Blake	added by anonymous 14 years ago
We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it. – Will Rogers	added by anonymous 14 years ago
There are three great friends an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. – Benjamin Franklin	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Except in cases of necessity, which are rare, leave your friend to learn unpleasant things from his enemies they are ready enough to tell them. – Oliver Wendell Holmes	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. – Publilius Syrus	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Ready money works great cures. – French Proverb	added by anonymous 14 years ago
I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves. – E. M. Forster	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The maxim that people should not have a right till they are ready to exercise it properly, is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. – Thomas B. Macaulay	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Whoever desires to found a state and give it laws, must start with assuming that all men are bad and ever ready to display their vicious nature, whenever they may find occasion for it. – Niccolo Machiavelli	added by anonymous 14 years ago
To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime. – Erich Fromm	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. – Francis Bacon	added by anonymous 14 years ago

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