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)