Idle Tone

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or tone:

“One person tells an idle story; ten thousand repeat it as truth.”
—Chinese proverb.

“It makes me hate accepting things that are probable when they are held up before me as infallibly true. I prefer these words which tone down and modify the hastiness of our propositions: “Perhaps, In some sort, Some, They say, I think,” and the like.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)