The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.
More French Proverbs:
A hook's well lost to catch a salmon.French
The devil may die without my inheriting his horns.
French
Only a fool gets drunk from his own bottle.
French
Repute hangs a man.
French
The best-laid schemes of mice and men gang aft agley.
French
To want to forget something is to remember it.
French