The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
Don't tell me what was said about me. Tell me why they were so comfortable to say it to you.
The biggest liar in the world is They Say.
The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
When of a gossiping circle it was asked, "What are they doing?" The answer was, "Swapping lies.
We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, why am I telling it?
Gossip is the Devil's radio.
Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.
It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.
Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
Refusing to gossip is a beautiful decision to make. It not only creates richer friendships but, more importantly, it makes our relationship with the Lord more authentic and believable. We honor God when we honor each other.
Fire and swords are slow engines of destruction, compared to the tongue of a Gossip.
It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded gossip, for they speak of persons instead of things.
He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.
My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the most thorough culture relieve themselves from all temptation to indulge in it. It is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are country neighborhoods in which it rages like a pest. Churches are split in pieces by it. Neighbors are made enemies by it for life. In many persons it degenerates into a chronic disease, which is practically incurable. Let the young cure it while they may.
The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.
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