Quotes About Preparation

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

I tuck caution into my pocket and hope I can reach for it if I need to.

When you're doing an out-and-out comedy, the notion of preparing for a character - I hope I don't reveal too much of myself here - but, uh, no, I'm not doing anything.

I hope to get out before they start football next year.

Hope is not a strategy

Humanity's greatest challenge may soon be just making it to the next harvest.

What are we doing down here? We prepare the blossoms of tomorrow. We all manure future humanity.

Anticipating the end of the world is humanity's oldest passtime

Plans are invitation to disappointment.

If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

if you make waffles, throw out the first one.

The best way to make a fire with two sticks is to make sure one of them is a match.

If you want to go foraging into the wilds of Canada without proper gear, you deserve what you get, even if that happens to include being attacked by an undead moose.

There's no question that the minute I got elected, the storm clouds on the horizon were getting nearly directly overhead.

I went to a funeral recently, and they handed out Kleenex before the funeral. Which I thought was cocky.

It's exciting; I don't know whether I'm going to win or not. I think I am. I do know I'm ready for the job. And, if not, that's just the way it goes.

Wilbur looked at the list glumly. "Are you sure you need all this stuff?""Yep.""The ax?""The ax is critical.""The c

Special Super Bowl Wisdom of the Ages: "Unger Games" If your meals depend on you beating the Seahawks, you're gonna go "'Unger-y.

Take care of your car in the garage, and the car will take care of you on the road.

And-he was ashamed to admit--he had been known to carry off the occasional roll of duct tape. That stuff could be used for everything.

Don't go a-hunting for a moose where there ain't no moose to hunt.

I always splash on the cologne before a blind date because dogs can smell fear