Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or hour:
“Therefore with idle hands and head I sit
In late December before the fires daze
Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.”
—Allen Tate (18991979)
“I am grown by sympathy a little eager and sentimental, but leave me alone, and I should relish every hour and what it brought me, the pot-luck of the day, as heartily as the oldest gossip in the bar-room.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)