gossip

1.

Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

- Proverb, Jewish

2.

There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.

- Harvey, William

3.

Never trust the teller, trust the tale.

- Lawrence, D. H.

4.

One eye witness is better than ten hear sayers.

- Plautus, Titus Maccius

5.

Gossip is sometimes referred to as halitosis of the mind

6.

Journalism is organized gossip.

- Eggleston, Edward

7.

Gossip is always a personal confession of malice or imbecility; it is a low, frivolous, and too often a dirty business. There are neighborhoods where it rages like a pest; churches are split in pieces by it, and neighbor made enemies for life. Let the young avoid or cure it while they may.

- Jack Holland

8.

Conversation is an exercise of the mind; gossip is merely an exercise of the tongue.

9.

Gossip is news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.

- Smith, Liz

10.

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers

11.

None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

- Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called scientific mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

- Ozick, Cynthia

13.

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

- Crane, George W.

14.

A lie has no leg, but a scandal has wings.

- Fuller, Thomas

15.

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

- Hugo, Victor

16.

EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free -- The subject engaging them was she. "I think," said one, "and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!" As soon as no more of it she could hear The lady, indignant, removed her ear. "I will not stay," she said, with a pout, "To hear my character lied about!" Gopete Sherany

- Ambrose Bierce

17.

I'm not afraid of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not equivalent to an idea. This is the essential fallacy of the so-called "scientific" mind. People who mistake facts for ideas are incomplete thinkers; they are gossips.

- Cynthia Ozick

18.

Gossip is only the lack of a worthy memory.

- Elbert Hubbard

19.

Working from home meant we could vary snack and coffee breaks, change our desks or view, goof off, drink on the job, even spend the day in pajamas, and often meet to gossip or share ideas. On the other hand, we bossed ourselves around, set impossible goals, and demanded longer hours than office jobs usually entail. It was the ultimate "flextime," in that it depended on how flexible we felt each day, given deadlines, distractions, and workaholic crescendos.

- Diane Ackerman

20.

Try to live your life so that you wouldn't be afraid to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.

- Will Rogers