Thus, statesmanlike, I'll saucily impose, And safe from action, valiantly advise; Sheltered in impotence, urge you to blows, And being good for nothing else, be wise.
Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales
I once sang 'Summer Nights,' from 'Grease,' at a bar in Melbourne with John Travolta, who's a good friend of mine. He looked cool singing the part of Danny - sitting in an armchair, smoking a cigar - while I got stuck playing Sandy.
I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.
So it was, my dear Watson, that at two o'clock today I found myself in my old armchair in my own old room, and only wishing that I could have seen my old friend Watson in the other chair which he has so often adorned. - Sherlock Holmes.
By legend and perhaps by nature philosophers are more accustomed to the armchair than the workbench.
Arm chair warriors often fail.
A vision of truth which does not call upon us to get out of our armchair - why, this is the desideratum of mankind.