{"topic":"gossip","quotes":[{"quote":"May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.","author":"Anonymous"},{"quote":"To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)","author":"Anonymous"},{"quote":"No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.","author":"Bertrand Russell"},{"quote":"We cannot control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to disregard them.","author":"Cato the Elder"},{"quote":"There is so much good in the worst of us,<br> And so much bad in the best of us,<br> That it hardly behooves any of us<br> To talk about the rest of us.","author":"Edward Wallis Hoch"},{"quote":"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?'","author":"Johann K. Lavater"},{"quote":"A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.","author":"John Tudor"},{"quote":"Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.","author":"Oscar Wilde"},{"quote":"Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.","author":"Phocion"},{"quote":"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.","author":"Sir Philip Sidney"},{"quote":"Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?","author":"Spanish Proverb"},{"quote":"No sword bites so fiercly as an evil tongue.","author":"Will Rogers"},{"quote":"Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.","author":"Will Rogers"},{"quote":"Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip.","author":"Will Rogers"},{"quote":"Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.","author":"William Shakespeare"},{"quote":"The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them."},{"quote":"Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."}]}