Famous Proverbs
112 Proverbs about Idle / Page 4
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The busy man is troubled with but one devil, the idle man by a thousand.32.
A young man idle, an old man needy.33.
Idleness is the devil's bolster.34.
An idle man is the devil's pillow.35.
An old mule with a golden bridle.36.
Better lose your labour than your time in idleness.37.
He is too idle to fetch his breath.38.
Idleness is hunger's mother, and of theft it is bull brother.39.
Poverty is the reward of idleness.40.
Take a horse by his bridle and a man by his word.