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)

    On the idle hill of summer,
    Sleepy with the flow of streams,
    —A.E. (Alfred Edward)

    I know that Quiet
    Wanders laughing and eating her wild heart
    Among pigeons and bees, while the Great Archer,
    Who but awaits His hour to shoot, still hangs
    A cloudy quiver over Pairc-na-lee.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)