Quotes About Busybodies

#1. The saying that people who have nothing to do become busybodies is not the only truth. Excitement is a drug, and people whose lives are filled with violence are always wondering where the next 'fix' is coming from.

Maya Angelou

#2. 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

#3. Busy people are never busybodies.

Ethel Mumford

#4. It may be better to live under robber barons than omnipotent moral busybodies.

C.S. Lewis

#5. "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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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.

Emil Cioran

#10. It is my conviction that we make ourselves who we want to be and not chain ourselves to the notions of busybodies who wish to judge us.

Matthew Pearl

#11. Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

Martin O'Malley

#12. 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

#13. Professional is an apt definition for me, professional slouch, that is. I can be very professional at seeming to do work, but the real work is trying to do as little as possible, without getting caught by Trip or any nosey busybodies.

J.C. Patrick

#14. 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

#15. Zeus hates busybodies and those who do too much.

Euripides

#16. 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

#17. Critics, mathematicians, scientists and busybodies want to classify everything, marking the boundaries and limits ... In art, there is room for all possibilities.

Pablo Picasso

#18. God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.

Sue Grafton

#19. Life ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other ... The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#20. We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.

Charles Spurgeon

#21. When people say they're too busy, ask them If they'll have time to die, and see If dead's gonna give a damn.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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

Mary Baker Eddy

#23. lofty dreams in the distant future are a difficult burden to carry. The best goals may be those you can handle in the next week, the next day, the next hour, or the next step; create a process that yields many small successes." "Many

Dan Millman

#24. There is nothing more revolting than an old busybody.

Martial

#25. [Creationists have] lost in the courts of law; they've long ago lost in the halls of science; and they continue to lose with every new piece of evidence in support of evolution. Taking offense is all they've got left.

Richard Dawkins

#26. Busy mouths grow on idle heads

Agona Apell

#27. What I'm having is this conflict in my life right now, that in New York, I see my directing friends and I see acting friends and they've all got this level of passion about either or both of those directions that I've never really found myself having.

Danny Pintauro

#28. Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.

George Eliot

#29. A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.

Barbara Kingsolver

#30. He took a sip of my father's weak coffee and spit it back into the mug. "This shit's like making love in a canoe."
"Excuse me?"
"It's fucking near water.

David Sedaris

#31. The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.

Judith Martin

#32. 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