80 Busybodies Quotes
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Famous Busybodies Quotes
A busybody's work is never done. — A. N. Wilson
Busy souls have no time to be busybodies. — Martin O'Malley
Busy people are never busybodies. — Ethel Mumford
Most of the trouble in this world has been caused by folks who can't mind their own business, because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus has. — William S. Burroughs
There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody. — Martial
People who have little to do are excessive talkers. — Proverbs
Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much. — Euripides
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb
Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them. — Horace
If you mind your own business, you`ll stay busy all the time. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Nest of Soviet fellow travelers clacking busybodies in a Soviet jellyfish front, sitting here in Leesburg oozing out their funny little propaganda and making nuisances of themselves. — Lyndon LaRouche
We're not responsible for the bustling and hustling that may go on here. Lots of people bustle, and some hustle. But that's their business, and a very old one. — Pancho Barnes
Everybody's business is nobody's business, and nobody's business is my business. — Clara Barton
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. — Eric Hoffer
If you want something done, ask a busy person. — Benjamin Franklin
Short Busybodies Quotes
- The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern. — Edna Ferber
- There was nothing more dangerous than people convinced of their own good intentions. — Laura Lippman
- Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you. — George Eliot
- It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. — C. S. Lewis
- God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us. — Sue Grafton
- Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. — Mary Baker Eddy
- Doing for people what they can and ought to do for themselves is a dangerous experiment. — Samuel Gompers
- I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career. — George Takei
- Making those we love happy sounds innocent as a dove, but it can be as destructive as a lion. — Florida Scott-Maxwell
- A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business. — Barbara Kingsolver
Busy Body Quotes
If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business. — Gail Dines
The Church says: the body is a sin. Science says: the body is a machine. Advertising says: The body is a business. The Body says: I am a fiesta. — Eduardo Galeano
Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment. — Grenville Kleiser
Actually, if my business was legitimate, I would deduct a substantial percentage for depreciation of my body. — Xaviera Hollander
Sleep might be the most important aspect of building a great business and having a high-performing body. — Lewis Howes
You have to want it, you have to plan for it, you have to fit it into a busy day, you have to be mentally tough, you have to use others to help you. The hard part isn't getting your body in shape. The hard part is getting your mind in shape. — Amby Burfoot
The business of beauty isn't a natural model; It's built to be the opposite of the cultures we topple. These magazines got you caught in a hustle, Cause when you starve yourself, your body doesn't burn fat, it burns muscles. — Immortal Technique
I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. — Michael Weatherly
I have no interest in being the biggest, the most profitable or the largest retailer. I just want The Body Shop to be the best, most breathlessly exciting company - and one that changes the way business is carried out. — Anita Roddick
I favor free trade in drugs for the same reason the Founding Fathers favored free trade in ideas: in a free society it is none of the government's business what ideas a man puts into his mind; likewise, it should be none of its business what drugs he puts into his body. — Thomas Szasz
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More Busybodies Quotes
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 my activities. — Emile M. Cioran
You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process! — Frances Parkinson Keyes
It is personal vanity of the most flagrant type which intrudes itself, unasked, into other people's affairs. There are few of us who do not feel capable of ordering the daily lives of others, down to the most minute detail. — Myrtle Reed
The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others. — Thomas Sowell
Once you assume your right to interfere in other people's problems they become in some ways more of a worry than your own, for with your own you can at least do what you think best, but other people always show such a persistent tendency to do the wrong thing. — Marion Milner
It's a mystery to me how anyone ever gets any nourishment in this place. They must eat their meals standing up by the window so as to be sure of not missing anything. — Agatha Christie
The weather is nature's disruptor of human plans and busybodies. Of all the things on earth, nature's disruption is what we know we can depend on, as it is essentially uncontrolled by men. — Criss Jami
Be not unwilling in what thou doest, neither selfish nor unadvised nor obstinate; let not over-refinement deck out thy thought; be not wordy nor a busybody. — Marcus Aurelius
Insistent advice may develop into interference, and interference, someone has said, is the hind hoof of the devil. — Carolyn Wells
Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits... In art, there is room for all possibilities. — Pablo Picasso
"Family" this and "family" that. If I had a family I'd be furious that moral busybodies are taking the perfectly good word family and using it as a code for censorship the same way "states' rights" was used to disguise racism in the mid-sixties. — John Waters
We are living in the era of the busybody. In ancient Greece, if a person wanted guidance, it involved a long, arduous expensive journey to consult the oracle at Delphi. Today, if you want guidance, all you have to do is unplug your ears. — Margo Kaufman
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. — C. S. Lewis
It's dangerous business, thinking you can make people over. — Lenora Mattingly Weber
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
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 rich, who feed their own egos by bankrolling political crusades on the left which hurt the very people that the left claims to care about -- working people, minorities, and children. — Thomas Sowell
Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody. — Vilfredo Pareto
But when no risk is taken there is no freedom. It is thus that, in an industrial society, the plethora of laws made for our personal safety convert the land into a nursery, and policemen hired to protect us become selfserving busybodies. — Alan Watts
The busybodies have begun to infect American society with a nasty intolerance - a zeal to police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms - A Nation of Finger Pointers. — Lance Morrow
There is no robbery so terrible as the robbery committed by those who think they are doing right. — Mary Catherwood
I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his. — Anne Ellis
There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbours' business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs. Rachel Lynde was one of those capable creatures who can manage their own concerns and those of other folks into the bargain. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
Literature remains an indispensable human activity, in which the reader and the writer are engaged of their own volition. Hence, literature has no duty to the masses or society, and ethical or moral pronouncements added by busybody critics are of no concern to the writer. — Gao Xingjian
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man. — Bertrand Russell
We don't want a busybody government - a boss - that butts into our lives every chance it gets to tell us how to work, how to play, where to live and on and on. — Sonny Perdue
Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody -- should be determining how much somebody else should be paying those who work for them. — Thomas Sowell
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this. — Judith Martin
'Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others. — Thomas Sowell
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