an idle brain is the devil’s workshop
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a 1602 W. PERKINS Works (1603) 906 The idle bodie and the idle braine is the shoppe [workshop] of the deuill.
1732 T. FULLER Gnomologia no. 3053 Idle Brains are the Devil’s Workhouses.
1855 H. G. BOHN Hand-Book of Proverbs 311 An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
1859 S. SMILES Self-Help viii. Steady employment..keeps one out of mischief, for truly an idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
1930 E. D. BIGGERS Charlie Chan Carries On xxii. Tell him to be [a] good boy and study hard. An idle brain is the devil’s workshop.
1988 C. G. HART Design for Murder ix. ‘Idle minds are the devil’s workshop.’ She lifted the watch..and stared at it accusingly. ‘Five minutes after eight. Is no one else here\?’
2001 Washington Times 3 Sept. A12 Young people need to learn to work. Their parents must not let them be idle all summer for, as they say, idle hands are the devil’s workshop.
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brain — see an idle brain is the devil’s workshop … Proverbs new dictionary
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