"IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil……" — Ambrose Bierce
"IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices."
More Devil Quotes
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine
- I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. — Teresa of Avila
- The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate… — Teresa of Avila
- People have discovered that they can fool the devil; but they can't fool the neighbors. — Francis Bacon
- To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil. — Pearl Bailey
- I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too. — Josephine Baker
- Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou
- A church debt is the devil's salary. — Henry Ward Beecher
- You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between… — Hans Bender
- God loves us; the devil hates us. God wants us to have a fulness of joy as He has. The… — Ezra Taft Benson
- A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an… — Ezra Taft Benson
- Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his… — Ambrose Bierce