Idle Tone

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or tone:

“When the idle poor become the idle rich, you’ll never know just who is who, or which is which.”
—E.Y. Harburg (1898–1981)

“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)