Fit

Famous quotes containing the word fit:

“If a drunkard in a sober fit is the dullest of mortals, an enthusiast in a reason-fit is not the most lively.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“The painter ... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)