Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

Leisure is the handmaiden of the devil.

The idle man is the devil's cushion.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

The idle man is the Devil's cushion, on which he taketh his free ease: who, as he is uncapable of any good, so he is fitly disposed for all evil motions.

IDLENESS, n. A model farm where the devil experiments with seeds of new sins and promotes the growth of staple vices.

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

People can so easily be tempted by slackness... and by money.

There is really nothing left to a genuine idle man, who possesses any considerable degree of vital power, but sin.

When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned.

Some day the Devil will come to me and say: 'Come with me.'And I will answer: 'Yes.

Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.

Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues

Thus Belial, with words clothed in reason's garb, counseled ignoble ease, and peaceful sloth, not peace.

Weakness arouses evil. The American people know this.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.

Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young

Idle minds are the devil's research-and-development department.

Calvin: Do you believe in the Devil? You know, a supreme evil being dedicated to the temptation, corruption, and destruction of man? Hobbes: I'm not sure man needs the help.

The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil.

Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.

Don't let a little sin in; all hell will break loose.

Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.