never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down.

Don't sit with your back to any doors.

"Another Spartan, when he saw men sitting on stools in a lavatory, declared: "May I never sit where it is impossible for me to get up and offer my seat to an older man.

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?

Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down.

Live, work, act. Don’t sit here and brood.

Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hope that the cow will back up to them.

Wenn man im Mittelpunkt einer Party stehen will, darf man nicht hingehen.

Do not hurry; do not rest.

...never in peaceful times stand idle..

We must stop even thinking of standing up straight. To think of it is fatal, for it commits us to the operation of an established habit of standing wrong. We must find an act within our power which is disconnected from any thought about standing. We must start to do another thing which on one side inhibits our falling into the customary bad position and on the other side is the beginning of a series of acts which may lead into the correct posture.[2] The hard-drinker

Never send a battalion to take a hill if a regiment is available.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.