“Vita sei nostra amica, morte sei nostra amante.”
Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945) Italian politician and writer
Translation: Life, you are our friend. Death, our lover.
Quoted in "L'Italia del fascio" By Mario Isnenghi - Page 39.
The scars of others should teach us caution.
Letter 54
Letters
“Vita sei nostra amica, morte sei nostra amante.”
Alessandro Pavolini (1903–1945) Italian politician and writer
Translation: Life, you are our friend. Death, our lover.
Quoted in "L'Italia del fascio" By Mario Isnenghi - Page 39.
“The gentleman will sit! The gentleman is correct in sitting!”
Anthony Weiner (1964) American politician
Speech on the floor of the House, on the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act (July 29, 2010)
“Sometimes I sits and thinks. Other times I sits and drinks, but mostly I just sits.”
Neal Cassady (1926–1968) American cultural figure of 1950s and 1960s
Source: First Third & Other Writings - Revised & Expanded Edition Together With A New Prologue
“A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.”
Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) American politician, 28th president of the United States (in office from 1913 to 1921)
“Don't get up. Just sit a while and think. Never be afraid to sit a while and think.”
Lorraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun
Asagai to Beneatha, Act III
A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
“I find it hard to sit still in one spot, and impossible to sit still in two spots.”
Brother Theodore (1906–2001) German-American monologuist and comedian
“Hospitality sitting with Gladness.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)