God save us from the people who want to do what's best for us.
Busy people are never busybodies.
Great mischief comes from attempts to steady other people's altars ...
A busybody's work is never done.
The one prediction that never comes true is, 'You'll thank me for telling you this.
Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you.
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
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.
A writer's occupational hazard: I think of eavesdropping as minding my business.
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.