And theres a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbours shame; On eagles wings immortal scandals fly While virtuous actions are but born and die.
But there?s another type of poison perhaps a little more insidious thought poison commonly called gossip. Thought poison differs from body poison in two ways. It affects the mind not the body and it is more subtle. The person being poisoned usually doesn?t know it. Thought-poison is subtle but it accomplishes big things. It reduces the size of our thinking by forcing us to concentrate on petty unimportant things. It warps and twists our thinking about people because it is based on a distortion of facts and it creates a guilt feeling in us that shows through when we meet the person we?ve gossiped about. Thought-poison is 0 percent right thinking: it is 100 percent wrong thinking. And contrary to lots of opinion women have no exclusive franchise on gossip. Every day many men too live in a partially poisoned environment.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary and that God is listening while you tell it.
If all men knew what each said of the other there would not be four friends in the world.
People will believe anything if you whisper it.
Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
A cruel story runs on wheels and every hand oils the wheels as they run.
The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.
Gossip is natures telephone.
Faith is to believe what we do not see; and the reward of this faith is to see what we believe.
For what do we live but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?
A small town is a place where there is little to see or do but what you hear makes up for it.
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought because we had power we had wisdom.
What passes out of one?s mouth passes into a hundred ears. It is a great misfortune not to have sense enough to speak well.
And theres a lust in man no charm can tame Of loudly publishing our neighbours shame; On eagles wings immortal scandals fly While virtuous actions are but born and die.
To tell tales out of schoole.
If you must speak ill of another do not speak it write it in the sand near the waters edge
Of every ten persons who talk about you nine will say something bad and the tenth will say something good in a bad way.
But there?s another type of poison perhaps a little more insidious thought poison commonly called gossip. Thought poison differs from body poison in two ways. It affects the mind not the body and it is more subtle. The person being poisoned usually doesn?t know it. Thought-poison is subtle but it accomplishes big things. It reduces the size of our thinking by forcing us to concentrate on petty unimportant things. It warps and twists our thinking about people because it is based on a distortion of facts and it creates a guilt feeling in us that shows through when we meet the person we?ve gossiped about. Thought-poison is 0 percent right thinking: it is 100 percent wrong thinking. And contrary to lots of opinion women have no exclusive franchise on gossip. Every day many men too live in a partially poisoned environment.
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us.
To a philosopher all news as it is called is gossip and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; never to tell even that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary and that God is listening while you tell it.
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
He that sows thorns should not go barefoot.