A Quote by William S. Burroughs

There is nothing more provocative than minding your own business.

William S. Burroughs

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William S. Burroughs
American - Writer
February 5, 1914 - August 2, 1997

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.

Eric Hoffer

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.

Eric Hoffer

Simply minding one's own business is more offensive than being intrusive. Without ever saying a word one can make a person feel less-than.

Criss Jami

The hardest thing about the business is minding your own

Drake

There's a lot of not caring that goes under the name of minding your own business.

Robert Breault

The biggest fool is one who minds the business of others rather than minding his very own

Amit Abraham

My mom taught me a lot. A lot about minding your own business and leaving other people's business alone. And let them think what they want.

Ray Charles

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

Bryce Courtenay

But have you never noticed that when one has been trying to do something really good one is much nearer committing some special sin than when one keeps on in the selfish, matter-of-fact prudence of minding one's own business, and that alone?

Geraldine Jewsbury

The people seemed nearly ostentatious about minding their own business.

Robert Jordan

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding.

Eric Hoffer

There is nothing that is more dangerous to your own salvation, more unworthy of God and more harmful to your own happiness, than that you should be content to remain as you are.

Francois Fenelon

In my own life, there's no amount of success or money that's more important than your child being healthy and happy. There's nothing that can put a band-aid on that. There's nothing more valuable, to me, than your child.