I believe most distempers proceed from too much sitting still. - M

I believe most distempers proceed from too much sitting still. – Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, letter to her daughter Françoise-Marguerite de Sévig

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Sitting
category

Helen started, and said she feared she had been sitting too long idle. – Maria Edgeworth (1768–1849), Helen, 1834

Category:
Sitting

I am writing this at my standing desk, which is against the window. The window offers a pleasant prospect over the lime trees and sun-bathed hills — delightful natural scenery. – Friedrich Nietzsche, letter to sister Elisabeth, 1862, wording slightly altered

Category:
Sitting

Sitting kills, moving heals. – Joan Vernikos, c.2011

Category:
Sitting

I shall be compelled to buy a standing-desk, which will cost me from two to three dollars, as the older students advise me to have one as necessary to my health. – James Stokes Dickerson, letter to brother, 1842 October 13th

Category:
Sitting

Random Quotes

I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after Johns death. – Paul McCartney

Category:
Death

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence. – Plato

Category:
parenting

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea. – Walter Bagehot

Category:
Conformity

Faith is the confidence, the assurance, the enforcing truth, the knowing. – Robert Collier

Category:
Faith