"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician & printer
Subject GossipBenjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician & printer
"A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip." - Billy Graham (1918- ), American evangelical Christian evangelist
"Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys." - Joseph Conrad (1857-1924), Polish-born English novelist
"If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees." - Khalil Gibran (1883-1931), Lebanese-American artist, poet & writer
"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 Miller (1923-2010), Psychologist & author
"A perverse man stirs up dissension, and a gossip separates close friends." - Proverbs 16:28, Bible
"Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly." - Plutarch (46 AD-120 AD), Greek biographer and moralist
"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), 17th Governor of Kansas
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), 17th Governor of Kansas
"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you." - Spanish Proverb
"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790), US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician & printer
"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them." - Will Rogers (1879-1935), US humorist & showman
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