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:
- Many men, many minds
- To be wise behind the hand
- A wager is a fool's argument
- A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will
- As the fool thinks, so the bell clinks
- Soon learnt, soon forgotten
- Learn to creep before you leap
- Every man has a fool in his sleeve
- He who is born a fool is never cured
- Fools never know when they are well
- Children and fools must not play with edged tools
- Give a fool rope enough, and he will hang himself
- No man is wise at all times
- To be head over ears in debt
- A word is enough to the wise