GOSSIP

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

What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.
Jewish Proverbs

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw

I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.
Dorothy Parker

Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!
Logan Pearsall Smith

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.
Jewish Proverbs

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish Proverbs

Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
Erica Jong

Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.
Erica Jong

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

Ps. 57: 4 My soul is among lions: and I lie even among them that are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Bible

Sight before hearsay.
Danish Proverbs

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.
Titus Maccius Plautus

It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde

Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker.
George Eliot

Job 6: 24 Teach me, and I will hold my tongue: and cause me to understand wherein I have erred.
Bible

D&C 112: 9 Thy voice shall be a rebuke unto the transgressor; and at thy are buke• let the tongue of the slanderer cease its perverseness.
Doctrine and Covenance

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

Rumor grows as it goes.
Virgil

There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
Henry Van Dyke

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation.
Source Unknown

A gossip is one who talks to you about others; a bore is one who talks to you about himself; and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself.
Lisa Kirk

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.
Source Unknown

The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Elizabeth Drew

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
Phyllis Mcginley

Ps. 15: 3 He that backbiteth not with his tongue, nor doeth evil to his neighbor, nor taketh up a reproach against his neighbour.
Bible

Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
The Talmud

James 3: 6 And the tongueis a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Bible

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
H. L. Mencken

Speak no evil of the dead.
Chilo

Where no wood is, the fire goes out; so where there is no tale bearer, the strife ceaseth.
Bible

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?
Myrtle Barker

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Remember, every time you open your mouth to talk, your mind walks out and parades up and down the words.
Edwin H. Stuart

Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.
Chinese Proverbs

He who hunts for flowers will finds flowers; and he who loves weeds will find weeds.
Henry Ward Beecher

The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.
Bible

Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade before the public. Never clothe them in vulgar or shoddy attire.
George W. Crane

A malignant sore throat is a danger, a malignant throat not sore is worse.
American Proverbs

James 3: 8 8 But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
Bible

Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
Phyllis Mcginley

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind.
Source Unknown

Prov. 15: 2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Bible

When of a gossiping circle it was asked, What are they doing? The answer was, Swapping lies.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Victor Hugo

Gossiping and lying go hand in hand.
Proverbs

Prov. 15: 4 A wholesome tongue is a tree of life: but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.
Bible

Ps. 120: 2 Deliver my soul, O LORD, from lying lips, and from a deceitful tongue
Bible

Job 20: 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper’s tongue shall slay him.
Bible