Sits

Famous quotes containing the word sits:

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

“Alas! when Virtue sits high aloft on a frigate’s poop, when Virtue is crowned in the cabin of a Commodore, when Virtue rules by compulsion, and domineers over Vice as a slave, then Virtue, though her mandates be outwardly observed, bears little interior sway.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.”
—Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)