Sits

Famous quotes containing the word sits:

“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)

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

“Sweet peace sits crown’d with smiles
And one born in a Manger
Commands the Beauteous files,”
—Henry Vaughan (1622–1695)