Idle Hour

Famous quotes containing the words 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)

    “To quarrel with the uncertainty that besets us in intellectual affairs would be about as reasonable as to object to live one’s life with due thought for the morrow because no man can be sure he will alive an hour hence.”
    —Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)