A dictionary of Proverbs (Oxford Paperback Reference)

If you won’t WORK you shan’t eat
With allusion to 2 THESSALONIANS iii. 10 (AV) If any would not work, neither should he eat.

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  c 1535 D. LINDSAY Satire of Three Estates (EETS) 475 Qui non laborat, non manducet. .. Quha labouris nocht he sall not eit. 1624 CAPT. J. SMITH General Hist. Virginia III. X. He that will not worke shall not eate. 1891 R. KIPLING Life’s Handicap 362 If you won’t work you shan’t eat. .. You’re a wild elephant, and no educated animal at all. Go back to your jungle. 1938 N. STREATFEILD Circus is Coming v. Proper terma­gent she was, bless her. ‘Them as can’t work can’t eat,’ she always said. 1981 J. STUBBS Ironmaster xx. I say them as don’t work shan’t eat. "idleness; work
  

work see also (noun) the DEVIL finds work for idle hands to do; the END crowns the work; the EYE of a master does more work than both his hands; FOOLS and bairns should never see half-done work; if IFS and ands were pots and pans, there’d be no work for tinkers’ hands; MANY hands make light work; a WOMAN’S work is never done; (verb) what MATTERS is what works; TIME works wonders.
workman see a BAD workman blames his tools.
workshop see an IDLE brain is the Devil’s workshop.
world see it takes ALL sorts to make a world; all’s for the BEST in the best of all possible worlds; BETTER be out of the world than out of the fashion; GOD’S in his heaven, all’s right with the world; one HALF of the world does not know how the other half lives; the HAND that rocks the cradle rules the world; LAUGH and the world laughs with you; a LIE is halfway round the world; LOVE makes the world go round.
Even a WORM will turn
Even the humblest will strike back if harassed or imposed upon too far.

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  1546 J. HEYWOOD Dialogue of Proverbs II. iv. G4^V Treade a worme on the tayle, and it must turne agayne. 1592 R. GREENE Groatsworth of Wit XII. 143 Stop shallow water still running, it will rage. Tread on a worme and it will turne. 1854 ‘M. LANGDON’ Ida May xi. Even the worm turns when he is trodden upon. 1889 W. JAMES i n Mind XIV. 107 Since even the worm will ‘turn’, the space-theorist can hardly be expected to remain motionless when his Editor stirs him up. 1962 A. CHRISTIE Mirror Crack’d xii. He’s a very meek type. Still, the worm will turn, or so they say. 1975 ‘M. INNES’ Appleby File 98 Signs were not wanting that she was putting stuffing into Charles Vandervell, of late so inclined to unwholesome meditation of headlong dying. It was almost as if a worm were going to turn. ■ retribution