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)

    Death hath
    had a thousand doors to let out life,
    I shall find one ... From a loath’d life,
    I’ll not an hour outlive.
    Philip Massinger (1583–1640)