Sit

Famous quotes containing the word sit:

“It is better to sit down than to stand, it is better to lie down than to sit, but death is the best of all.”
—Indian proverb, quoted in Sébastien-roch Nicolas de Chamfort, Maxims and Considerations, vol. 1, no. 155 (1796, trans. 1926)

“At the dinner table, if you can’t think of anything to say, sit quietly. Don’t throw rolls, or chew on your napkin.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

“Now sit we close about this taper here,
And call in question our necessities.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)