Sits

Famous quotes containing the word sits:

“One who only sits idle and eats can exhaust a mountain of wealth.”
—Chinese proverb.

“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

“Who riseth from a feast
With that keen appetite that he sits down?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)