Busybodies Quote by Judith Martin Download Open image “The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.” — Judith Martin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Busybodies Conversation Predictions
I've always been careful never to predict anything that had not already happened. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable. — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us. — George Leonard Copy Share Image
I've never predicted anything. All I have ever said is, that we will do the very best we can. — Bobby Knight Copy Share Image
I never make a prediction that can be proved wrong within 24 hours. — Louis Rukeyser Copy Share Image
Smart people duck when they hear the dread announcement 'I'm going to be perfectly honest with you. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
If you put together all the ingredients that naturally attract children - sex, violence, revenge, spectacle and vigorous noise - what you have is… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Chaperons, even in their days of glory, were almost never able to enforce morality; what they did was to force immorality to be discreet.… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest rudenesses of our time come not from the callousness of strangers, but from the solicitousness of intimates who believe that their… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
We are all entitled to our little harmless habits, but we are not entitled to demand approval for them. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
“Lady” is not used before the lady’s first name unless she is the daughter of a duke, marquess or earl; those who come by… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Adorable children are considered to be the general property of the human race. Rude children belong to their mothers. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
I have always believed that the key to a happy marriage was the ability to say with a straight face, 'Why, I don't know… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
It is, indeed, a trial to maintain the virtue of humility when one can't help being right. — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Honesty is a virtue, but not the only one. If you're in a courtroom you need the whole truth and nothing but the truth;… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Jane had that happy disposition which would like to imagine that every one really wishes the well-being of his neighbour and struggles, though sometimes… — Phyllis Bottome Copy Share Image
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to… — Frances Parkinson Keyes Copy Share Image
Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making… — Lyndon LaRouche Copy Share Image
People used to complain about 'the idle rich.' But the idle rich did not do the kind of harm being done by today's busybody… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
People who seek political power are, with exceptions too rare to matter, never to be trusted; at best, such people are vain and officious… — Donald J. Boudreaux Copy Share Image
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
