Idle State

Famous quotes containing the words idle and/or state:

“How long shall we sit in our porticoes practising idle and musty virtues, which any work would make impertinent? As if one were to begin the day with long-suffering, and hire a man to hoe his potatoes; and in the afternoon go forth to practise Christian meekness and charity with goodness aforethought!”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.”
—Paddy Ashdown (b. 1941)