112 Proverbs about Idle

1. The devil makes work for idle hands.
2. As good be an addled egg as an idle bird.
3. Idleness has poverty for wages.
4. Idleness is the beginning of all sin.
5. Idleness is the root of all evil.
6. Idleness is the sepulchre of a living man.
7. It is idle to swallow the cow and choke on the tail.
8. Take a horse to the knacker, and throw in bridle and saddle.
9. The devil finds work for idle hands to do.
10. Victory is not gained by idleness.
11. An idle brain is the devil's workshop.
12. He that is busy is tempted but by one devil, he that is idle by a legion.
13. A bridle for the tongue is a necessary piece of furniture.
14. An idle man is the devil's pillow.
15. An old mule with a golden bridle.
16. Better lose your labour than your time in idleness.
17. He is too idle to fetch his breath.
18. Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.
19. Poverty is the reward of idleness.
20. Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.
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