Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or hour:
“One person tells an idle story; ten thousand repeat it as truth.”
—Chinese proverb.
“God screens us evermore from premature ideas. Our eyes are holden that we cannot see things that stare us in the face, until the hour arrives when the mind is ripened; then we behold them, and the time when we saw them not is like a dream.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)