Aesop's Fables
Moral:
Mind Your Own Business

Aesop's Moral:
Mind Your Own Business

Other ways of saying it:

• MYOB
  
• Every man should be content to mind his own business (more typical translation of the fable's moral)
  
• Don't be so nosy
  
• Don't mess with what you don't know about

Aesop's Fable:

A Seagull having greedily swallowed too large a fish, burst its stomach and lay down on the shore to die. A Kite saw him and exclaimed: “You deserve your fate, for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea.”

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Moral: Every person should be content to mind their own business.

Comment: This fable probably won't do what you want it to!

Firstly, to clarify, a kite is a kind of hawk. Seagulls are shore birds that tend to eat crabs and small fish.

While today we tend to use "Mind your own business" to mean something like, "Don't worry about whether your sister is eating; worry about your own food," Aesop meant something more along the lines of:

"Don't engage in activities which you have no expertise or aptitude."

Or rather, the old saying:

"Curiosity killed the cat."

Big difference.

Mind your own business.

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