Idle Hour

Famous quotes containing the words idle hour, idle and/or hour:

    And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
    Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

    It is an axiom in political science that unless a people are educated and enlightened it is idle to expect the continuance of civil liberty or the capacity for self-government.
    Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836)

    It is the hour when stink and sweat
    Subside to let the flesh forget
    Affinity for brick and lathe,
    The cold necessity to bathe
    And certain things one would forget.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)