The devil finds work for idle hands, as you well know.

So you find the children left to themselves and, as they say, the devil finds work for idle hands.

The devil finds work for idle hands – never was there a truer saying.

The Devil finds work for idle hands to do,' they say. '

I daresay you're right But the Devil finds work for idle hands, you know.

In an epilogue, the principal characters point out the simple moral: that the Devil finds work for idle hands.

But to say that the devil finds work for idle hands to do is misleading because hypermoralistic or (if meant literally) hypertheological.

"The majority of our young people are well behaved and a credit to their communities, but the devil finds work for idle hands," said Mr MacAskill.

When I was a boy - perhaps it is not fashionable now to talk about the devil - my mother said to me: ' The devil finds work for idle hands' .

One of the reasons why, particularly in our inner cities and in our more disadvantaged areas, people turn to drugs is because of the old saying 'the devil finds work for idle hands' .

Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill said: "The devil finds work for idle hands and that is why this government is committed to giving our young people positive things to do with their lives.

But, of course, the devil finds work for idle hands, and they began thieving, acquiring all manner of things but particularly musical equipment When they realised it was mostly too hot to sell they thought maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to learn how to play the stuff they had thieved.

They say the devil makes work for idle hands, well there was none of that.

The devil makes work for idle hands, and it had never been truer than out here.

"The devil makes work for idle hands, so we want to ensure that our young people have positive things to do with their lives.

Comment: the devil makes work for idle hands to do is a very old saying - why have we, as a nation, apparently forgotten it?

So far, nobody has admitted to its production, but to slightly misquote, the devil makes work for idle hands to do.

The devil makes work for idle hands, it is said, and nowhere is that better illustrated than in politics.

The devil makes work for idle hands.

In medieval Christendom the appropriate saying was 'The devil makes work for idle hands'.

Much grinned, "Yes, indeed, sir; the Devil makes work for idle hands!"

Paxon's hasty departure and whatever invisible machinations lie behind it show that the devil makes work for idle hands.

There remains truth in the adage,' The devil makes work for idle hands'; and I assert that lack of hope is the greatest recruiting officer for all criminal activity.

The Devil Makes Work for Idle Hands is a greatest hits album released by New Zealand band, Head Like A Hole in 2009 in support of their 2009 reunion tour.