Ready For Christmas

Be prepared and be honest. - John Wooden

Luck is being ready for the chance. - James Frank Dobie

Change favors those who are prepared. - Louis Pasteur

Christmas comes, but once a year is enough. - American Proverb

Gladly accept the gifts of the present hour. - Horace

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare

People only see what they are prepared to see. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Uncanny: The way our grandmothers prepared meals. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue. - Garibaldi

I get really grinchy right up until Christmas morning. - Dan Aykroyd

We are always getting ready to live, but never living. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. - Henri Bergson

Halloween starts earlier and earlier, just like Christmas. - Robert Englund

I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me. - Walter Cronkite

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf

In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur

Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. - Winston Churchill

Those gifts are ever the most acceptable which the giver has made precious. - Ovid

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. - W Somerset Maugham

There are two things in this life for which we are never fully prepared: twins. - Josh Billingsad

If my Valentine you won't be,
I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree. - Ernest Hemingway

I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale. - Robert H. Schuller

Sometimes I get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter. - Ansel Adams

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready, here comes life. - Unknown

The Irish don't know what they want and are prepared to fight to the death to get it. - Sidney Littlewood

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes. - Benjamin Disraeli

If 'ifs and buts' were 'candy and nuts', we'd have Christmas every day. - Unknown

One of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter. - Soleil M Frye

When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: I wish no gifts, only presence. - Unknown

No matter how carefully you stored the lights last year, they will be snarled again this Christmas. - Robert Kirby

The Christmas season has come to mean the period when the public plays Santa Claus to the merchants. - John Andrew Holmes

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau

The role of the teacher is to create the conditions for invention rather than provide ready-made knowledge. - Seymour Papert

I always add a year to myself, so I'm prepared for my next birthday. So when I was 39, I was already 40. - Nicolas Cage

Technology is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other. - Carrie Snow

It's better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. - Whitney Young

A kind of banalization of celebrity has occurred: we are now offered an instant, ready-to-mix fame as nutritious as packet soup. - J G Ballard

I find that the nicest and best people generally profess no religion at all, but are ready to like the best men of all religions. - Samuel Butler

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies?
There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made. - Groucho Marx

When my wife says she'll be ready in 5 minutes, I know I have just enough time to fly to space and write a poem on the moon before we go. - Mike Vanatta