“620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3054. Idle Fellows are the Devil's Playfellows.
“620. An idle Person is the Devil's Playfellow.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: 3054. Idle Fellows are the Devil's Playfellows.
“I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.”
Home is the Hangman (1975)
As quoted in Exclusive: Dennis Nilsen: My Prison Life of Drink and Drugs http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/exclusive-dennis-nilsen-prison-life-555104, Mirror.co.uk (27 August, 2005)
"The Jelly-Bean"
Quoted, Tales of the Jazz Age (1922)
“The idle mind knows not what it wants.”
Otioso in otio animus nescit quid velit.
As quoted by Aulus Gellius in Noctes Atticae (Attic Nights), Book XIX, Chapter X
Iphigenia
“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.”
20 July 1749
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)
“No man is a devil in his own mind.”