Gossip Quotes

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  The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Keeping Promises

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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  Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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.

  J. G. Holland

  Country, Dirty, Indulge In

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• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

  Philip Sidney

  Rumor, Behind Your Back, Spanish Proverb

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• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wise, Heart, Men

  Benjamin Franklin (1987). “Writings”, Library of America

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• 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.

  James Truslow Adams

  Wisdom, Peace, Faults

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.

  Cato the Elder

  Inspirational, Good Life, Evil

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• The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Knowledge, People, Society

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

  Khalil Gibran

  Spiritual, Wind, Keeping Secrets

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

  Blaise Pascal

  Friendship, World, Four

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  It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

  Dolley Madison

  People, Rumor, Desire

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• Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

  Earl Wilson

  Gossiping And Rumors

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• He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Envy, Enemy

  Mark Twain, Arthur Grove Day (1975). “Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii”, p.171, University of Hawaii Press

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• 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.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Beautiful, Decision, Honor

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Sep 28, 2016

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• 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.

  Lawrence G. Lovasik

  Wicked Person, Envy, Judging

  Lawrence G. Lovasik (1999). “The Hidden Power of Kindness: A Practical Handbook for Souls who Dare to Transform the World, One Deed at a Time”, p.176, Sophia Institute Press

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• Cultivate your own garden and let go of your tendency to examine and judge how others cultivate theirs. Catch yourself in moments of gossip about how others ought to be living and rid yourself of thoughts about how they should be doing it this way, or how they have no right to live and think as they do. Stay busy and involved in your own projects and pursuits.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Letting Go, Garden

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Jun 27, 2013

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• In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it is our ideals we have consumed, and we have not been enlarged by the feasts but only diminished.

  Pico Iyer

  Too Late, Appetite, Ideals

  FaceBook post by Pico Iyer from May 09, 2011

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• Isn't it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up?

  Sean Covey

  Jealousy, Silly, Thinking

  Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.201, Simon and Schuster

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• Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

  Ingmar Bergman

  People, Solitude, Behavior

  "Fictional character: Dr. Eberhard Isak Borg". "Smultronstället (Wild Strawberries)", December 26, 1957.

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  Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  Henry Fielding

  Love, Tea, Scandal

  'Love in Several Masques' (1728) act 4, sc. 11

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• Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

  Walter Winchell

  Art, Way, Saying Nothing

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• The only gossip I'm interested in is things from the Weekly World News - 'Woman's bra bursts, 11 injured'. That kind of thing.

  Johnny Depp

  Fake People, World News, Kind

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• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Hilarious, 4th Of July

  Poor Richard's Almanac for 1735 and 1741.

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• Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

  Herb Shriner

  Talking, Three, Conversation

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• 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?

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Evil, Speak, Certain

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