And Jesus said unto him,No man, having put his hand to the plough, and looking back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Luke 9:62.

Sir Patrick died that nightöjust as the company rose to drink his health with three cheers, he fell down in a sort of fit, and was carried offöthey sat it out, and were surprised, on enquiry, in the morning, to find it was all over with poor Sir Patrick.

-Edgeworth, Maria
  Castle Rackrent,'An Hibernian Tale'.

It is only fit for the slaves who sold it.

-Fletcher (of Saltoun), Andrew
  Of Scotland, on leaving it after the signing of the Treaty of Union. Quoted in G  W  T Ormond Fletcher of Saltoun (1897).

Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

-Fuller, Roy Broadbent
  'Translation'.

Borrowed garments never fit well.

-Fuller,Thomas
  Gnomologia, no.1008.

We [the English] seem to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

-Seeley, SirJohn Robert
  The Expansion of England.

   This is the law of theYukon, that only the Strong shall thrive; That surely theWeak shall perish, and only the Fit survive.

-Service, Robert William
  Songs of a Sourdough,'The Law of theYukon'.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Tristram Shandy, bk.4, ch.5.