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 (15331592)
“No matter how much faculty of idle seeing a man has, the step from knowing to doing is rarely taken. Tis a step out of the chalk circle of imbecility into fruitfulness.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul.”
—Gaston Bachelard (18841962)