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)
“Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)