"(Cartoon featuring the vicar's wife talking to a rustic old man laid up by an injured foot.) Vicar's wife: Now that you can't get about and are not able to read, how do you manage to occupy the time? Rustic man: Well, mum, sometimes I sits and thinks and then again I just sits."
— Punch (magazine)

January 1, 1970

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Quoted by Nigel Rees in his book Why Do We Say ...?. This is the origin of the saying Sometimes I sits and thinks and sometimes I just sits. Used by Lucy Maud Montgomery in Anne of the Island. And perhaps as Sometimes I just sits as an inscription on a china figurine of a boy on a lavatory.