Men who have a pierced ear are better prepared for marriage - they've experienced pain and bought jewelry.
Rita Rudner

Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
Mary Kay Ash

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
Margaret Thatcher

There are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
Josh Billings

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson

A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.
Aldous Huxley

Be Prepared... the meaning of the motto is that a scout must prepare himself by previous thinking out and practicing how to act on any accident or emergency so that he is never taken by surprise.
Robert Baden-Powell

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

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

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Stephen King

If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.
Thomas Sowell

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
Robert Benchley

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.
John McCain

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.
Gore Vidal

In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.
Edward de Bono

Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
Edward de Bono

One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice-president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'.
Dan Quayle