Top 89 Quotes About Meddling
#1. They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling with other People's Business.
Herman Melville
#2. That meddling in other people's affairs ... formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.
T. S. Eliot
#4. Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect
William Wordsworth
#5. 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
#6. The fearful happenings of the second game need not be lingered over, being now as well known as the circumstances surrounding the fall of Troy. Until the gods began their heavy-handed meddling, it was a fine, fast game, with the Dodgers having somewhat the better of it.
Roger Angell
#7. We habitually engage in meddling with nature. Until this century most of this meddling was good. Witness the preservation of the European countryside. But since then we've smoked it up and littered it and dumped too much in too many waters. I don't think it's our privilege to behave this way.
Lewis Thomas
#8. Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.
Lucretius
#9. The government should stop meddling in the business of the farmers, who would actually still be living ina desert if not for government meddling.
Jon Stewart
#10. Disrespectful! My grandmothers are both dead."
"Well, Jesus. What did they die of?"
"Mom always said 'meddling.
Maggie Stiefvater
#11. Nothing is more dreaded than the national government meddling with religion.
John Adams
#12. We would not have our country's vigour exhausted or her moral force abated, by everlasting meddling and muddling in every quarrel, great and small, which afflicts the world.
Henry Cabot Lodge
#13. We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.
Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
#14. It was time to confront the old bat with the damage she'd caused this time. Then, he promised himself, he'd strangle her for meddling in affairs that were none of her business, and kidnapping a goddamn innocent fairy.
Eden Ashe
#15. ...the leader must 1) avoid getting swamped in detail; 2) not be petty; 3) not be pompous; 4) know how to select people to fit the task; 5) trust others to do a job without the leader's meddling; 6) be capable of clear decisions; 7) inspire confidence.
J. Oswald Sanders
#16. Don't cross me Scooby-Doo. I'm not an old man in a mask waiting to be thwarted by you meddling kids.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. The world will not alter for all your meddling.
Moliere
#18. The people, when they say 'Death to America!' - do you know what they are really saying? What they mean to say relates to the aggressive policies of the U.S. and intervention and meddling by the U.S.
Hassan Rouhani
#19. I think human self-hatred may be the great untold story of the millennium. It's the common thread linking deep ecology and animal rights, the love and money we lavish on pets, the uneasy longing for extraterrestrials to be meddling with us.
Annie Gottlieb
#20. Winston was an odd mix, Fitz thought: aristocrat and man of the people, a brilliant administrator who could never resist meddling in other people's departments, a charmer who was disliked by most of his political colleagues.
Ken Follett
#21. Because of our failure to live out our beliefs, our own lack of moral clarity, and our meddling with partisan politics, Western culture no longer looks to Christianity as its moral source.
Philip Yancey
#22. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.
Theodore Roosevelt
#23. Meddling is what we do. It's what defines us. Meddling gave us fire and tools and civilisation and the keys to the universe. Fingers will get burnt along the way, yes. That's the way of it.
Alastair Reynolds
#24. Politics is the enemy of a sound economic entity, he mused. New laws, harsher tax rates, meddling . . . and now this.
Philip K. Dick
#25. If love is left untainted by our promiscuous meddling, and if it is left to be all that God designed it to be, God will use it to turn pain to our profit in His pursuit of our perfection.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. We've heard many people say and have often said ourselves that justice is doing one's own work and not meddling with what isn't one's own ... Then, it turns out that this doing one's own work-provided that it comes to be in a certain way-is justice.
Plato
#27. Then there was Buddha meddling in, telling all of the Hindu, Hebrew, Christian and Islamic gods and demons that they were nothing more than unenlightened fear induced figments of nirvana-starved mortals.
Andrew James Pritchard
#28. Been meddling, have you?" Royce asked, looking around at the hive of activity.
"You must admit they didn't have much in the way of a defense plan,"
Hadrian said, pausing to wipe the sweat from his forehead.
Royce smiled at him. "You just can't help yourself, can you?
Michael J. Sullivan
#29. Crack-brained meddling by the authorities [can] aggravate an existing crisis.
Karl Marx
#30. 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
#31. Civil officials have no business meddling in private religious affairs.
Thomas Jefferson
#32. As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
Voltairine De Cleyre
#33. 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
#34. Thus I live in the world rather as a Spectator of mankind, than as one of the species, by which means I have made myself a speculative statesman, soldier, merchant, and artisan, without ever meddling with any practical part of life.
Joseph Addison
#35. Will you stop meddling in my love life?" I growled.
"I'm not meddling. I'm offering commentary.
Ilona Andrews
#36. All countries in my part of the world, we want democracy to prevail. I told the people, 'If you want American policies to stop, we need to take action.' We need to make the U.S. understand that its meddling is inappropriate.
Hassan Rouhani
#37. They were the sort who berated a man for meddling and chased him away, then berated him again for not being there when he was needed. Not that they would admit he was needed, even then, not them. Raise a hand to help and you were interfering, do nothing and you were an un-trustworthy wastrel.
Robert Jordan
#38. Mrs. Bonneville never buckled her seat belt, even though it was required by state law; an ardent libertarian, she opposed government meddling in all matters of personal choice.
Carl Hiaasen
#39. Justice means minding one's own business and not meddling with other men's concerns.
Plato
#40. The beaver dam had been constructed on the ruins of a man-made one, built by the CCC back in the thirties and later dynamited by an irate Finn who'd objected to the government's meddling with nature.
Philip Caputo
#41. I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.
Tommy Hilfiger
#42. 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
#43. That which is meddling, touching everything,
Lao-Tzu
#44. 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
#45. Fine wits destroy themselves with their own plots, in meddling with great affairs of state.
John Selden
#46. Not meddling with Divinity, Metaphysicks, Moralls, Politicks, Grammar, Rhetorick, or Logick.
Robert Hooke
#47. Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.
Rudyard Kipling
#48. 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
#49. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Anonymous
#50. Stand there, damn'd meddling villain, and be silent;
For if thou utt'rest but a single word,
A cough or hem, to cross me in my speech,
I'll send thy cursed spirit from the earth,
To bellow with the damn'd!
Joanna Baillie
#51. There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
Will Self
#52. I've always admired President Chavez for standing up to imperialism and the meddling of the American government in South America.
Cindy Sheehan
#53. If there was one thing to know about families, then it was that they'd never, ever stop meddling in your life.
Anya Nowlan
#54. Meddling, smug, stupid little ... "
"She likes me! They always play hard to get when they like me!"
"No. You do not understand. I could not have done it because I can not read or write.
Darren Shan
#55. When men do not know their assignment on earth they kill themselves psychologically and emotionally, wallowing in different careers and meddling in dreams of others. They become restless and engage in unhealthy competition - living unfulfilled lives
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#56. I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.
Jonathan Evison
#57. Meddling is the evil, not indifference.
Marty Rubin
#58. Photography has always been a major part of my vision: my excuse for meddling with what the world looks like.
Robert Rauschenberg
#59. Bitcoins can be traded or used for purchases, but only with those sellers who will accept them. Because it is a system independent of external meddling, there can be no sudden devaluation of Bitcoins through the actions of governments.
Kurt Eichenwald
#60. If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates.
Thomas Sowell
#61. A less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people.
Iris Murdoch
#62. 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
#63. Two things never mix: one is enchantments and the other is meddling with them.
Lloyd Alexander
#64. Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the 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
#65. Meddlers, both, we be, and always with the hope that our meddling will leave in our wake a more beautiful tapestry than that we first encountered.
R.A. Salvatore
#66. 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
#67. The problem with meddling," said Charles under his breath, "is that for every problem you solve, you create two more.
Kate Elliott
#68. Men little think how immorally they act in rashly meddling with what they do not understand. Their delusive good intention is no sort of excuse for their presumption.
Yuval Levin
#69. Saturdays are set for antique shops. Williamsburg in Brooklyn has some good ones. I get in there and start meddling around with dusty boxes and rickety, worn-in stuff. I like it when I find something with someone else's name on it.
Valerie June
#70. If Americans want prosperity, we need a grand reawakening to the incontrovertible fact that its source is entrepreneurs unfettered by meddling politicians.
Star Parker
#71. I think my constant fiddling and meddling with the status quo may have been one of my biggest contributions to the later success of Wal-Mart.
Sam Walton
#72. Because of God, even the imperious ballbreakers, moralizing windbags, and meddling assholes may know love.
Joshua Ferris
#73. White magic is black magic. a less than perfect meddling in the spiritual world can breed monsters for other people, and demons used for good can hang around and make mischief afterwards.
Iris Murdoch
#74. I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
Tennessee Williams
#75. Refuting the false promises requires philosophic understanding of economic interventionism, central banking, and the deeply flawed foreign policy of meddling in the affairs of other nations.
Ron Paul
#76. Shameless, impudent, meddling females, who presumed to set at naught the Society's prohibition on women's magic, and duped the common people with their potions and cantrips!
Zen Cho
#77. I've never seen America as an imperialist or colonialist or meddling country.
Madeleine Albright
#78. Trust free people and free enterprise as opposed to meddling, burdensome government.
George Allen
#79. Writers take words seriously - perhaps the last professional class that does - and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader.
John Updike
#80. I don't think anybody ever thought about the CIA meddling in internal affairs. The shock of the President's death called for an immediate investigation. It actually lay in the jurisdiction of Texas.
John Sherman Cooper
#81. The people with money were meddling in mechanical and design affairs. They were interjecting their mediocre ideas into the process and polluting it.
Robert Greene
#82. Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.
William Penn
#83. The critical spirit never knows when to stop meddling.
Mason Cooley
#84. Now we have technology where we can modify the genomics of individuals by gene transfer and genetic meddling, we may find that people will want to modify their children, enhance their intelligence, their strength and their beauty and all the other so-called desirable characteristics.
Robert Winston
#85. You may say you won't interfere with another person's soul, but you do - merely by existing. The snag about it is the practical difficulty, so to speak, of not existing.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#86. It was a bit late to repair the damage, but Harry swore to himself not to meddle in things that weren't his business from now on. He'd had it with sneaking around and spying.
J.K. Rowling
#87. The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising.
Sebastian Barry
#88. I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
Karl Kraus
#89. Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world.
Jane Austen
