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Definition of Fitting
Fitting

of Fit

Anything used in fitting up

necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.

Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.

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Fitting Quotations

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.
Ernest Hemingway

If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.
Margaret Mead

People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
Warren G. Bennis

It is not fitting, when one is in God's service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look.
Francis of Assisi

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.
Augusten Burroughs

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
Carrot Top

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.
Bill Bowerman

It is fitting that a liar should be a man of good memory.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian

So the animal finally performs in that situation only the fitting act.
Edward Thorndike

Fitting Translations

fitting in Afrikaans is behoorlik
fitting in Dutch is betamelijk, behoorlijk, fatsoenlijk
fitting in French is convenable, conforme
fitting in German is anliegend
fitting in Latin is aptus, idoneus
fitting in Norwegian is passende, montering
fitting in Portuguese is caber


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