Usually, so far as improvement in the people's economic conditions is concerned, humanitarians simply play the role of the busybody.
I like poking my nose into other people's lives.
Busy old fool, unruly Sophie
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.
Having no business of his own to attend to, he busies himself with the affairs of others.
A busybody's work is never done.
If everybody minded their own business... the world would go round a deal faster than it does.
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.
I'm a civic busybody and I've been blessed with an active career.
There is an element of the busybody in our conception of virtue: unless a man makes himself a nuisance to a great many people, we do not think he can be an exceptionally good man.
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.
Censor: A self-appointed snoophound who sticks his nose in other people's business.
On all the 'Housewives' shows, there's always some wannabe wife who's always sticking her head in.
A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon.
