Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work. — Rudyard Kipling
People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing. — Charlotte Lamb
Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you. — George Eliot
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
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars. — Mary Baker Eddy
We have a strange anxiety in us; that if we don't interfere then it won't happen. Now that's the root of an enormous amount of trouble. — Alan Watts
It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not. — Charles Caleb Colton
Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns. — Plato
Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick. — Robert Hooke
It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path. — Aleister Crowley
When children are doing nothing, they are doing mischief. — Henry Fielding
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
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. — J. R. R. Tolkien
Politics is the art of preventing people from busying themselves with what is their own business. — Paul Valery
You can either give negativity power over your life or you can choose happiness instead. — Anais Nin
We don't want to meddle into U.S. politics, we will work with any administration. — Nayib Bukele
Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion. — John Adams
The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling. — Mason Cooley
I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life. — Tennessee Williams
Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. — Joseph Addison
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying. — Michel de Montaigne
Fear is the mother of all gods. — Sayings
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life. — Anais Nin
Scooby Doo Quotes
I hated Woody Woodpecker and Scooby-Doo, but I was a cartoon freak. — John Goodman
I grew up watching Scooby Doo and Thelma was my favourite character. — MyAnna Buring
My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel. — Gene Perret
I really can't say what inspires me the most, because I'm inspired by just about everything. My feelings and relationships, my family, Scooby-Doo. Opinion of my work. Everything. Not just one thing. — Erykah Badu
My kids are fanatical about 'Scooby-Doo,' and I think that the creators of 'Scooby-Doo' somehow tripped across some kind of magical hypnotic formula that lures children. It's far more fascinating to them than anything else on the air. — Dave Willis
I grew up writing about the paranormal, and I blame too many Saturday mornings watching Scooby Doo. — Kelley Armstrong
That’s a pretty lame superhero name,” I told him. “Scooby-Doo is already taken,” he said with dignity. “Anything else sounds lame in comparison. — Patricia Briggs
With my kids I have to get involved in the Scooby Doo games and the basic kid games that go on. I find myself getting on it more and more just because of my kids. — Jeremy Roenick
If you mentioned Hanna-Barbera to people, they said, "Oh yeah, Flintstone, Yogi, Scooby-Doo, Jetsons," and that was pretty much it. We have characters with very high recognition factors and great films, but no organized plans for really making the most of them and increasing their value. — Fred Seibert
I'm sorry I can't get into Scooby Doo on any level. — Mike Judge
The business and design of the Royal Society is: To improve the knowledge of naturall things, and all useful Arts, Manufactures, Mechanic practices, Engines and Inventions by Experiments-(not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysics, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetoric or Logick). — Robert Hooke
O Lord and Master of my life, take from me the spirit of sloth, meddling, lust of power, and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, humility, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea, O Lord and King, grant me to see my own sins and not to judge my brother; for Thou art blessed unto ages of ages. Amen. — Ephrem the Syrian
The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. — Theodore Roosevelt
I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America. — Cindy Sheehan
When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control. — Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets. — Kinky Friedman
Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; for the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things - bread and circuses. — Juvenal
A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs. — John Stuart Mill
If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians. — Star Parker
I love Virginians because Virginians are all snobs and I like snobs. A snob has to spend so much time being a snob that he has little time left to meddle with you. — William Faulkner
A Progressive is one who is in favor of more taxes instead of less, more bureaus and jobholders, more paternalism and meddling, more regulation of private affairs and less liberty. In general, he would be inclined to regard the repeal of any tax as outrageous. — H. L. Mencken
Intimately concerned as we are with the system of Europe, it does not follow that we are therefore called upon to mix ourselves onevery occasion, with a restless and meddling activity, in the concerns of the nations which surround us. — George Canning
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. — Plato
Keep in mind God's precept that states, 'Judge not, and you will not be judged' (Lk. 6:37), and in no way meddle in the lives of others. — Symeon the New Theologian
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. — Oscar Wilde
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear. — Thomas Babington Macaulay
A man. All men. He will pass up a hundred chances to do good for one chance to meddle where meddling is not wanted. He will overlook and fail to see chances, opportunities, for riches and fame and welldoing, and even sometimes for evil. But he won't fail to see a chance to meddle. — William Faulkner
Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty. — William Penn
I don't care how little your country is, you got a right to run it like you want to. When the big nations quit meddling then the world will have peace. — Will Rogers
Never meddle with play-actors, for they're a favoured race. — Miguel de Cervantes
Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods. — Lucretius
Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis. — Karl Marx
No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class. — Carl L. Becker
According to the Asiatics, Cupid's bow is strung with bees which are apt to sting, sometimes fatally, those who meddle with it. — Maria Edgeworth
For above all things Love means sweetness, and truth, and measure; yea, loyalty to the loved one and to your word. And because of this I dare not meddle with so high a matter. — Marie de France
The average man, if he meddles with criticism at all, is a conservative critic. — A. E. Housman
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