Gossip Quotations and a Verse

Gossip Quotations and a Verse

"They must not slander anyone and must avoid quarreling.
Instead, they should be gentle and show true humility to everyone."
- Titus 3:2

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"Gossip is the devil's radio."
- George Harrison
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"If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z,
with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut."
- Albert Einstein
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"Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth
that shouldn't be passed around."
- Frank A. Clark
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"What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth."
- A Jewish Proverb
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people."
- Author Unknown
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"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
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"The biggest liar in the world is 'They Say'."
- Douglas Malloch
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"Who gossips with you will gossip of you."
- An Irish Saying
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"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"To find a girl's faults, praise her to her girlfriends."
- Benjamin Franklin
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"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

Joke and Lesson - The Joy of Saying Nothing

The Joy of Saying NOTHING

Mildred, the church gossip, and self-appointed monitor of the church's morals, kept sticking her nose into other people's business. Several members did not approve of her extra-curricular activities, but feared her enough to maintain their silence.

She made a mistake, however, when she accused Elmer, a new member, of being an alcoholic after she saw his old pickup parked in front of the town's only bar one afternoon. She emphatically told Elmer (and several others) that everyone seeing it there would know exactly what he was doing!

Elmer, a man of few words, stared at her for a moment and just turned and walked away. He didn't explain, defend, or deny... He said nothing.

Later that evening, Elmer quietly parked his pickup in front of Mildred's house... walked home... and left it there all night.

You gotta love Elmer!

(Thanks, Sharon!)