Busy opinion is an idle fool.
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Act V, sc. iii.John Ford (dramatist)
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Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool’s gold mouthpiece the hollow horn
Plays wasted words, proves to warn
That he not busy being born is busy dying.Bob Dylan
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
The Fool is busy in everyone's Business but his own.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that will bridle and control them, they throw themselves in disorder hither and yon in the vague field of imagination. ..And there is no mad or idle fancy that they do no bring forth in the agitation.
Michel de Montaigne
This I think is sufficiently evident, that children generally hate to be idle. All the care then is, that their busy humour should be constantly employ'd in something of use to them; which, if you will attain, you must make what you would have them do a recreation to them, and not a business.
John Locke
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