Meddling Quotes

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

— Rudyard Kipling

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

— Anais Nin

Fear is the mother of all gods.

— Lucretius

“That which is meddling, touching everything,”

— Lao Tzu

Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.

— Karl Marx

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding,

— Eric Hoffer

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

— Lucretius

“There is admittedly an incredible mystique to meddling in the reason a city won’t sleep.”

— Aesop Rock

You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead.

— Anais Nin

“Never stand in the way of letting God use people’s actions, in order to solve a greater issue in the world.”

— Shannon L. Alder

Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.

— John Adams

Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if…

— Carl L. Becker

We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great…

— Henry Cabot Lodge

“Did you ever feel, Hugh, that it might be better to let even ill alone," wondered Cadfael ruefully, "rather than let loose…

— Ellis Peters

All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies…

— Hassan Rouhani

All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation,…

— Plato

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have…

— Jonathan Evison

“Meddling is what we do. It’s what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the…

— Alastair Reynolds

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in…

— Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador

In politics as in religion, my tenets are few and simple. The leading one of which, and indeed that which embraces most…

— George Washington

Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that…

— Robert Winston

A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in…

— Thomas Jefferson

Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the…

— Oscar Wilde

A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is…

— William Faulkner

I delivered a clear and forceful message that although we recognize Russia's intelligence gathering will sometimes take place even if we don't…

— Barack Obama

Apologists for activist government never tire of telling us that the benevolent state is our protector and that without it wed be…

— Sheldon Richman

Our problems are both acute and chronic, yet all we hear from those in positions of leadership are the same tired proposals…

— Ronald Reagan

If we have a decent sort of cat to begin with, and have always treated it courteously, and aren't cursed with meddling,…

— Barbara Holland

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the…

— Henry David Thoreau

... a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.

— Iris Murdoch

Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.

— Plato

Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.

— John Selden

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

— William Penn

In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

— Eric Hoffer

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

— Joseph Addison

I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.

— Madeleine Albright

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous…

— Will Self

That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

— Anonymous

Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent; For if thou utt'rest but a single word, A cough or hem, to cross…

— Joanna Baillie