By doing nothing we learn to do ill
Ничего не делая, мы учимся дурным делам.
Праздность (безделье) - мать всех пороков. На безделье всякая дурь в голову лезет.
Другие пословицы:
- Better be the head of a dog than the tail of a lion
- Learn to say before you sing
- To be head over ears in debt
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks
- Live and learn
- A word is enough to the wise
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning
- He that lives with cripples learns to limp
- So many men, so many minds
- A nod from a lord is a breakfast for a fool
- Head cook and bottle-washer
- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise
- Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain
- A wager is a fool's argument