Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody --… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right. — Mary Catherwood Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil. — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Every person - whether Greek or Barbarian - who is in training for wisdom, leading a blameless, irreproachable life, chooses neither to… — Pierre Hadot Copy Share Image
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your… — Marion Milner Copy Share Image
There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions. — Laura Lippman Copy Share Image
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb Copy Share Image
There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word… — John Waters Copy Share Image
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody. — Vilfredo Pareto Copy Share Image
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. In the last analysis, the welfare… — Samuel Gompers Copy Share Image
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
