Idle

Famous quotes containing the word idle:

“On the idle hill of summer,
Sleepy with the flow of streams,”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)

“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)

“If you’re anxious for to shine in the high esthetic line as a man
of culture rare,
You must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant
them everywhere.
You must lie upon the daisies and discourse in novel phrases of your
complicated state of mind,
The meaning doesn’t matter if it’s only idle chatter of a
transcendental kind.”
—Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (1836–1911)