In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
--
The Birth of Flattery, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).George Crabbe
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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon
I decided that the devil finds work for idle hands and thanked him for his suggestion.
Roger Zelazny
There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.
Swami Narayanananda
In works of labour or of skill
I would be busy too:
For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.Isaac Watts
In me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
Samuel Beckett
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