Meddling Quotes

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Roosevelt is a leader whose particular genius is to try to run other people’s business.

Never leave well enough alone.

I'm not looking to stick my nose into an area where I'm not needed.

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.This minding of other people's business expresses itself in gossip, snooping and meddling, and also in feverish interest in communal, national and racial affairs. In running away from ourselves we either fall on our neighbor's shoulder or fly at his throat.

No vice is so bad as advice.

Govern the state by being straightforward; wage war by being crafty; win the empire by not meddling.

Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars

The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.

I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry.

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.

It's clear to me that the NRA isn't going to stop trying to meddle in making this a safer state.

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

I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.

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

Advice is priceless: when it becomes interference it is preposterous.

I like poking my nose into other people's lives.

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

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Don't stick your nose where someone can pull it off and eat it.

I'm really great in other peoples relationships.

It's what I do best - pry into people's business and mind their business. I can't help myself. I can't even go through the grocery line of the grocery store without talking to people and then giving them my opinion.

Mind your own business.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.