Why not seize the pleasure at once, how often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparations. - Jane Austen
In all the important preparations of the mind she was complete: being prepared for matrimony by an hatred of home, restraint, and tranquillity; by the misery of disappointed affection, and contempt of the man she was to marry. - Jane Austen
It is generally true that, the more preparations one has for an event, the more inconveniently fast the event will occur. - Monica Fairview