Gossip

(345 votes)   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
American Statesman

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(315 votes)   The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(292 votes)   Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(287 votes)   I don't care what anybody says about me as long as it isn't true.

Dorothy Parker
1893-1967, American Humorous Writer

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(276 votes)   What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(261 votes)   Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(255 votes)   How awful to reflect that what people say of us is true!

Logan Pearsall Smith
1865-1946, Anglo-American Essayist, Aphorist

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(250 votes)   Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: their measurements are being taken and compared.

Erica Jong
1942-, American Author

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(239 votes)   Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

Jewish Proverbs
Sayings of Jewish Origin

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(236 votes)   Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverbs
Sayings of Spanish Origin

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(233 votes)   One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

Titus Maccius Plautus
BC 254-184, Roman Comic Poet

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(232 votes)   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
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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

Bible

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(223 votes)   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
1741-1801, Swiss Theologian, Mystic

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(221 votes)   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

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