gossip on Humor

In 1867, the great American writer Mark Twain embarked on what he wryly called his “Great Pleasure Excursion,” a journey through Europe that would later inspire his travelogue, The Innocents Abroad...

George Augustus Moore was an aristocratic writer, art critic, and dramatist. Influenced by the realist school in France, Moore was particularly influenced by Emile Zola. Ultimately, his writing would ...

The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, othe...

I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.

Much of gossip is envy in disguise.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Some say our national pastime is baseball. Not me. It's gossip.

The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.”

In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.

Three essential rules when speaking of others are: Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary?

The power of speech is unfathomable. Gossip can never be undone. It is cruel, divisive, and demeaning. It alters the way people see another person forever. It robs the victim of dignity and opportunit...

To gossip means to betray a confidence or to discuss unfavorable personal facts about another person with someone who is not part of the problem or its solution. Even if the information you discuss is...

Holy and merciful God, we need Your grace and love today. We deliberately lie and speak falsehoods. We mislead and deceive with half-truths. We omit facts that make us look bad. We take pleasure in go...

Never about, always to.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

Gossip often veils itself in acceptable conventions such as “Have you heard…” or “Did you know…?” or “They tell me…” or “Keep this to yourself, but…” or “I do not believe it is true, but I heard that…...

God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that...

“Gossip, as usual, was one-third right and two-thirds wrong.”

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

“Why can’t you just be happy for me and then go home and talk behind my back later like a normal person?”

Show me someone who never gossips, and I’ll show you someone who isn’t interested in people.

We should have much more peace if we would not busy ourselves with the sayings and doings of others.

Conversation is when three people are talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves.

I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.

Father God, we confess that the actions of our hands do not often match the words of our mouths. We say one thing and do another. We give you praise and curse a friend, we sing songs of thanksgiving a...

What good does it do to speak in tongues on Sunday if you have been using your tongue during the week to curse and gossip?

If there were no gratified hearers of ill reports, there would be an end of the trade of spreading them.

A monk told his monastic leader, Poeman, “I am troubled in spirit, and I want to leave this place.” The old man said, “Why?” He said, “I have heard unedifying stories about one of the brothers. The...

Don’t pay any attention to what they write about you, just measure it in inches.

Notice, we never pray for folks we gossip about, and we never gossip about the folk for whom we pray! For prayer is a great deterrent.