Proverbs with the word idleness: 50 sayings with meaning ✍

Below you will read proverbs about idleness. Each of them has its own separate meaning. All of them are called to bring up industriousness in children. Proverbs with the word idleness is a set of words and instructive phraseological units that urge all people to get to work.

1. Only the sky is smoking without business.
2. Idle and the machine rusts.
3. Sits idle and looks into an empty corner.
4. Without work, the day will be a year.
5. Out of work and lie down cold.
6. Without work and the car rusts.
7. Without work and the oven is cold.
8. Idleness is the mother of vices.
9. Idleness is the sister of the disease.
10. A loafer is hunting to deceive anyone.
11. The loafer and the winter day are long.
12. Beloruchka is not an employee.
13. White pens love other people's labors.
14. The windmill and the idler woman grind tirelessly.
15. You can’t do all the work.
16. Where was he? He beat the stoves, and you go, get the pipes out.
17. Where is he? “He went to give the hay dogs.”
18. Cases like soot is white.
19. Business time gives the mind, and idleness creeps into my head.
20. Day and night - and the day away: and call back.
21. They overslept before lunch, got up and began to dine.
22. Bad business is not tricky.
23. We live and we chew bread, we sleep and we smoke the sky.
24. From sand rope to twist.
25. Whips whacks yes beats dogs.
26. He who looks into the sky sits without bread.
27. Lies on its side and looks at Oka.
28. Loafer and loafer - they have a holiday on Monday.
29. Loafer and loafer - they have a holiday on Monday.
30. People for the cause, and a fool for idleness.
31. People for the cause, and we for idleness.
32. Small business is better than large idleness.
33. Small business is better than large idleness.
34. On idleness, crap rises into my head.
35. For idleness and laziness, one day is great, and for good deeds - five years is small.
36. There is no heavier burden than idleness.
37. To carry water a sieve.
38. We’ll sit today, we'll see tomorrow, and there we’ll sing and dance.
39. He hits the buck, and you hung your ears.
40. From idleness needlework.
41. There is nothing to do and the cockroach climbs on the side.
42. Put off idleness, don't put off business.
43. Helping someone who has nothing to do.
44. Monday, don’t mess around.
45. Went to business, and returned with idleness.
46. Hands on hips, eyes on the ceiling.
47. They did the “thing” - put a clamp on the pig.
48. Bored day to night if nothing to do.
49. Though pounding in a stump, just to spend a day.
50. The black earth does not like white hands.

Small business is better than large idleness. The meaning of the proverb is that you need to work at least a bit instead of wasting a lot of time in vain. Such a complete proverb perfectly reflects the identity of the Slavic people.