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Folks whose lives are miserable look to make those around them miserable too.  That is the essence of gossip. – Ælfgifu

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

What you don’t see with your eyes, don’t witness with your mouth. ~Jewish Proverb

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away. ~Chinese Proverb

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. ~Bertrand Arthur William Russell, On Education, 1926

If it’s very painful for you to criticize your friends – you’re safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that’s the time to hold your tongue. ~Alice Duer Miller

When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~Author Unknown

A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~Ouida

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb

Do not repeat anything you will not sign your name to. ~Author Unknown

Nothing travels faster than light, with the possible exception of bad news, which follows its own rules. ~Douglas Adams

Gossip needn’t be false to be evil – there’s a lot of truth that shouldn’t be passed around. ~Frank A. Clark

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people’s business. ~Dolley Madison

To find out a girl’s faults, praise her to her girlfriends. ~Benjamin Franklin

It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. ~Errol Flynn

Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. ~Shana Alexander

There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us. ~F.H. Bradley, Aphorisms

Who brings a tale takes two away. ~Irish Proverb

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way. ~John Tudor
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Men have always detested women’s gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. ~Erica Jong

If an American was condemned to confine his activity to his own affairs, he would be robbed of one half of his existence. ~Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835

The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. ~Napoleon I, Maxims

The biggest liar in the world is “They Say”. ~Douglas Malloch

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, July 1735

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. ~Winston Churchill

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

Bertrand Russell (1872 – 1970)

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

Cato the Elder (234 BC – 149 BC)

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

Edward Wallis Hoch (1849 – 1925), Marion (Kansas) Record

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, ‘Why should I tell it?’

Johann K. Lavater

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

John Tudor

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900), Lady Windermere’s Fan, 1892, Act III

No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.

Sir Philip Sidney (1554 – 1586)

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

Spanish Proverb

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

Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)

Rumor travels faster, but it don’t stay put as long as truth.

Will Rogers (1879 – 1935), ‘Politics Getting Ready to Jell,’ The Illiterate Digest, 1924

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

Will Rogers (1879 – 1935)