Carolyn Wells Quotes

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

No vice is so bad as advice.

There's always been some moron-who usually went by the name of 'producer' - who would have to justify his existence, and interfere.

Advice when most needed is least heeded

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

The Devil often finds work for them who find none for themselves.

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

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.

Compulsory sports for those who by temperament or physique do not qualify may be a disaster. . . . The repercussions may be extreme . . . and they may be very long-lasting, even throughout adulthood.

The universe was bad enough without people poking it.

People should always mind their own business. More trouble is caused in this world by interference than any other single thing.

[When asked her occupation:] Destroyer of the works of the Devil by the direct order of God.

I get my fingers in all our pies. Before you know it, your little fingers including all your toes are in all the pies.

I may be good for nothing, but I'm never bad for nothing.

Political advice is a bit like your average Christmas fruitcake: something everyone gives and no one wants.

My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can.

Never leave well enough alone.

Devils may be nothing but beings intent on their purpose, which now happens to collide with yours.

I may not dress like Satan anymore, but I’m still down with the Devil and I will go medieval on your ass.

I never take advice, good or bad. That would only encourage more of it.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.

I've done my job extremely well. My only beef is that a lot of people have put their fingers in whatever I've done and tried to screw it up, and I've always resented that.

Yeah, that's a cool name, but it's a monstrous intrusion into our affairs.

The Devil may also make use of morality.

God made the bulk; the surface was invented by the devil.