Quotes About Preparation

Save your wealth against future calamity. Do not say, "what fear has a rich man of calamity?" Wealth sometimes vanishes away and large accumulations perish.

The bible fits man for life and prepares him for death

A man that can cook you a proper meal that is like a weekday meal - which I think cannot be better than in the form of a roast chicken - that's the greatest.

It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.

Man's best friend is a really good plan!

It is not wise for a man who can get seasick in a rowboat on a mill-pond to attack a Japanese dinner just after a seventeen days voyage across the Pacific.

I suppose playing an older man is a way of preparing myself for getting older.

The young man must store up, the old man must use.

The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

Matthew Wiener on Mad Men writes the entire series before they start shooting, and if you have that, then what you can do with character and story is not at all unlike what you can do in a novel.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

Life is rather a state of embryo, a preparation for life; a man is not completely born till he has passed through death.

No man not inspired can make a good speech without preparation.

A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.

If a man paints a target on his chest, he should expect that sooner or later someone will loose an arrow on him.

If a man is to lose his fortune, it is a good thing if he were poor before he acquired it, for poverty requires aptitude.

If you know what a man's doing, get in front of him; but if you want to guess what he's doing keep behind him.

Some men just aren't cut out for paternity. Better they should realize it before and not after they become responsible for a son.

If I am to tell you how to grow old gracefully, I must tell you at the beginning of life; for no man can grow old gracefully unless he begins early.

Man must be prepared for every event of life, for there is nothing that is durable.

Horace smiled. "Always breakfast like a man condemned. One never knows that a day may bring."

A man must walk before he can fly - one cannot fly into flying.