Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or hour:
“Prayer is not an old woman’s idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.”
—Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869–1948)
“My father and mother in 1817 were forty-nine days on the road with their emigrant wagons [from Vermont] to Ohio. More than two days for each hour that I spent in the same journey.”
—Rutherford Birchard Hayes (1822–1893)