Quotes About Preparation

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.

But I... never could make a good impromptu speech without several hours to prepare it.

Thrift began with civilization. It began when men found it necessary to provide for to-morrow as well as for to-day. It began long before money was invented.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

Thursday is Friday Eve!

Comparative anatomy teaches us that man resembles frugivorous animals in every thing, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, nor distinct and pointed teeth to tear the living fibre... It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation, that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion; and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.

Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take.

Resist winter as you will — the cold will come.

People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross.

The chief function of the graduation speaker has always been to ensure that the graduating seniors are not released into the real world until they have been properly sedated.

I'm so excited, it's time to take out the trash! What should I wear?

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.

Expect an early death — it will keep you busier.

But we are never prepared for what we expect...

When all else fails, pray for a fire drill.

He who burns his bridges better be a darn good swimmer.

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

If you're going to have a bad attitude, you may as well not even tee it up that week because you probably won't play good anyways.

Preparation + Attitude + Opportunity + Action = Luck.

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Nobody can get across now! We'll have to stay here days and days, and we've got nothing to eat, and we'll freeze to death at night, and I didn't even tell my dad I was coming here, and I'll get a whipping when I get home!" Tom smiled thinly and tried to make a joke out of it. "I thought you were going to freeze to death," he said.

All good knights, pilgrims, sons in search of fortune, seekers after truth, and plain ordinary fools, turn towards the city they have left and take farewell according to their nature. This is a full moment in all journeying, the time when girths are tightened in preparation for the miles that lie ahead.