Idle Hour

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or hour:

    How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    Around, the night drops swiftly down
    Its veils; does not condemn
    Or praise the different actions done.
    The hour that strikes across the town
    Caresses all and injures none
    As sleep approaches them.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)