Idleness rusts the mind
Праздность (безделье) ум притупляет.
Труд человека кормит, а лень портит. Стоячая вода киснет.
Другие пословицы:
- So many men, so many minds
- Out of sight, out of mind
- An ounce of discretion is worth a pound of learning
- Learn wisdom by the follies of others
- To be wise behind the hand
- If things were to be done twice all would be wise
- Fools and madmen speak the truth
- Fools grow without watering
- An idle brain is the devil's workshop
- A fool always rushes to the fore
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools learn in no other
- He is a fool that forgets himself
- A fool's tongue runs before his wit
- Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain
- Fish begins to stink at the head