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| >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, |
| If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~ Kahlil Gibran, |
| 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, |
| The easiest way to keep a secret is without help. ~ Author Unknown |
| The Puritan’s idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~ Wendell Phillips |
| A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. ~ Ouida |
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| 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 |
| Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people. ~ Barbara Walters |
| 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 |
| I look at it this way. I’m not an eavesdropper; I have an attention surplus disorder. ~ Robert Brault |
| It isn’t what they say about you, it’s what they whisper. ~ Errol Flynn |
| To a friend, who asked him how to find out a girl’s faults, he gave the sage advice to praise her to her girl friends. ~ Edwin Lillie Miller, 1938, |
| 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, |
| 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 |
| I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. ~ Benjamin Franklin |
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly becomes any of us
To talk about the rest of us.
~ Edward Wallis Hoch |
| 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 |
| The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it. ~ Napoleon I, |
| The biggest liar in the world is They Say. ~ Douglas Malloch |
| Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. ~ Benjamin Franklin, |