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)
“And can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?”
—Bible: New Testament, Matthew 6:27.