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)

    Interred beneath this marble stone
    Lie Saunt’ring Jack and Idle Joan.
    Matthew Prior (1664–1721)

    Yes, it is the hour at which, long ago, I felt happy. What always awaited me then was a light and dreamless sleep. But something had changed because, with the wait for tomorrow, it is my cell that I have found. As if the familiar paths traced in the summer skies could lead to prisons as well as innocent slumbers.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)