Idleness, Ignorance and Ill : Proverbs





Key-Words Based Proverbs



Idleness :



  • An idle mind is a devil's workshop.



  • Idle folks have the least leisure.



  • An idle person is a devil's cushion.



  • Idleness is the key of beggary.



  • It is more pain to do nothing than something.



  • Idle folks lack no excuses.



  • A lazy sheep thinks its wool heavy.



  • Idleness is the shipwreck of chastity.



  • Idleness must thank itself if it goes bare foot.



  • Every day is holiday with sluggards.



  • Ignorance :



  • Ignorance is bliss.



  • There is no blindness like ignorance.



  • Ignorance is the mother of impudence.



  • Ignorance is the peace of life.



  • What you don't know can't hurt you.



  • Art has no enemy but ignorance.



  • Ignorance is the night of the mind.



  • Ill :



  • Of one ill come many.



  • III got, III spent.



  • III be to him who thinketh ill.



  • III-gotten goods never thrive.



  • III laying up makes many thieves.



  • III weeds grow apace.











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