They're going to have to be made to sit up and take notice. They're going to have to be made to realise who we are. My father had a chain of dry cleaners.

-Bennett, Alan
  A Private Function.

Though I sit down now, thetime will come whenyou will hear me.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  On being barracked during his overly ornate maiden speech in the House of Commons,7 Dec.

There's one thing to be said about being Presidentö nobody can tell you when to sit down.

-Eisenhower, Dwight D(avid)
  Speech.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still.

-Eliot,T(homas) S(tearns)
  'Ash Wednesday'.

Women liketosit downwith trouble as if it were knitting.

-Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson
  The Sheltered Life, pt.3, section 3.

'You must sit down,'says Love,'and taste my meat,' So I did sit and eat.

-Herbert, George
'Love', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

On a voulu, a'   tort, faire de la bourgeoisie une classe. La bourgeoisie est tout simplement la portion contente¤  e du peuple. Le bourgeois, c'est l'homme qui a maintenant le temps de s'asseoir.Une chaise n'est pas une caste. Humboldt Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.

-Hugo,Victor Marie
  Les Mise¤  rables, vol.4, bk.1, ch.2.

   Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatsoever abysses Nature leads, or you shall learn nothing.

-Huxley,T(homas) H(enry)
  Letter to Charles Kingsley.

A man may build himself a throne of bayonets, but he cannot sit on it.

-Inge,William Ralph
  Philosophy of Plotinus, vol.2, lecture 22.

If youcan't saysomething good about someone, sit right here by me.

-Longworth, Alice Roosevelt
Motto embroidered on a sofa pillow. Quoted in Time, 9 Dec1966.

My soul; sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes, every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.

-Quarles, Francis
  Epigram, Respice Finem.

To sit back hoping that some day, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping that he will eat you lastöbut eat you he will.

-Reagan, Ronald Wilson
  CBS News,7 Nov.

It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around so much doing nothing, really doing nothing.

-Stein, Gertrude
  Everybody's Autobiography, ch.2.

By the waters of Babylon we sit down and weep, when we think of thee,OAmerica!

-Walpole, Horace, 4th Earl of Orford
  Letter toWilliam Mason,12 Jun. In The Correspondence of HoraceWalpole (Yale edition,1937^8).