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Famous quotes containing the word sit:

    Come, madam wife, sit by my side
    And let the world slip. We shall ne’er be younger.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who have appeared in or been responsible for successful plays, who have given outstanding performances, can still, in the full tide of their energy, be forced, through lack of opportunity, to sit idle season after season, their enthusiasm, their morale, their very talent dwindling to slow gray death. Of finances we will not even speak; it is too sad a tale.
    Ilka Chase (1905–1978)

    “... You could sit there with the stains on your shoes
    Of the fresh earth from your own baby’s grave
    And talk about your everyday concerns.
    You had stood the spade up against the wall
    Outside there in the entry, for I saw it.”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)