Idle hands Quote by Anonymous

“You know what they say about idle hands?” Idle hands were the devil’s tools. It might have done him more credit had he actually…

— Amy Andrews

“idle hands and mind led to loss of self-respect and eventually to”

— S.K. Epperson

The devil finds work for idle hands.

— Henry David Thoreau

I've never been one for idle hands. Totie Fields introduced me to needlepoint when we worked together in Vegas. My first pillow was a…

— Leslie Uggams

“What a mess,” [Rubashov] said, “what a mess we have made of our golden age.” Ivanov smiled. “Maybe,” he said happily. “Look at the…

— Arthur Koestler

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

— Allen Tate

You should not have idle hands, you should always be working. All your life.

— Ivan Bunin

I can't stand still; I find it very difficult to sit around and do nothing. I've got to have projects on the go because…

— Irvine Welsh

“The economic system barely functions as it is—I mean, the contemporary economic system is a complete catastrophe, an absolutely catastrophic failure. For instance, the…

— Noam Chomsky

“Satan finds some mischief still, for idle hands to do'...He might have written with as much truth, 'Satan finds some mischief for busy hands…

— Charles Dickens

The devil finds work for idle hands to do. Better to reign in the hell than serve in heaven. We are in bondage to…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.

— Isaac Watts