All work an no play makes Jack a dull boy
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" is another interesting expression I cam across in the TV series Blacklist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_work_and_no_play_makes_Jack_a_dull_boy. It means that one should also take off some time from work and enjoy leisure activities in order not to become a boring person.
If you're a native English speaker claiming that you never heard this expression, then you clearly haven't watched The Shining by Stanley Kubrick with Jack Nicholson, as this proverb plays a prominent part: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeOevu4zC5o.
If you're not a native English speaker and watched The Shining, you may say "Hey, I remember that scene but the sentence wasn't there!". You're right. It probably wasn't.
Here's the same scene in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqaMNPtye_M.
Kubrick shot the scene in several different language versions: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/read-the-alternative-phrases-to-all-work-and-no-play-makes-jack-a-dull-boy-stanley-kubrick-10312563.html.
The sentences in the other language versions aren't translations of "all work no play makes Jack a dull boy" though, but common proverbs in the respective languages and they have completely different meanings.
German: Was du heute kannst besorgen, das verschiebe nicht auf morgen (Never put off until tomorrow what can be done today)
Italian: Il mattino ha l’oro in bocca (The morning has gold in its mouth; we also have this in German: Morgenstund' hat Gold im Mund. It means it's better to rise early.)
Spanish: No por mucho madrugar amanece más temprano (No matter how early you get up, you can’t make the sun rise any sooner)
French: Un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras (What you have is worth much more than what you will have)
Do you use "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"? Do you know other films, books etc. where this expression is used? Do you know other language versions of The Shining and the respective proverb used in that scene? And what would be the actual accurate translation of "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in your native tongue or target language?
In German, one could translate is as "Arbeit allein macht nicht glücklich" (Work alone doesn't make happy.)
Edit: There's a typo in the title. Of course it should be "and" instead of "an".

