Word of mouth - trustworthy?

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


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


If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. ~Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

...so true. I totally believe in it. That's why, any time I share some personal tidbit with anyone, I am mentally prepared that it may be revealed to others, whether I want it or not.


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

True again. Do they really think others are so stupid that they won't be able to figure such people out😕


The Puritan's idea of hell is a place where everybody has to mind his own business. ~Wendell Phillips, attributed


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


Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people. ~Barbara Walters


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

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



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

Again, so true. I would further add "and start to amuse us" 😉😛😆


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

👏👏👏 True. No one is all evil or all angel. We all fall somewhere on the spectrum going from angel to evil. That's why I find it hard to hate someone...anyone. They all have some pluses somewhere😊


Men have always detested women's gossip because they suspect the truth: Their measurements are being taken and compared. ~Erica Jong

🤣🤣🤣 This one takes the cake😆 Ever wonder how hilarious it would be if some of them start comparing notes😆



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

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Other side of the same coin.........

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

This one touches a chord. So true.... but all one can do is keep their end of the bargain. You can't control the other person😊

...and last but not the least...............

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

...but how would you know which half is true and which half is false? People judge the truth and lie in a gossip based on their convenience and what they want to hear/believe at that particular point of time....so be careful before you take someone else's word for your friend. Use your own judgment based on your own interactions with that person😊