If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.
Albert Einstein
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(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Merchant of Venice (Salerio & Solanio at III, i)
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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?
Jane Austen
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I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited.
Oscar Wilde
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Gossip needn't be false to be evil - there's a lot of truth that shouldn't be passed around.
Frank A. Clark
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Report, that which no evil thing of any kind is more swift,
increases with travel and gains strength by its progress.
[Lat., Fama, malum quo non aliud velocius ullum,
Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo.]
Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil)
Quotes , Source: The Aeneid (IV, 174)
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And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to
house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies,
speaking things which they ought not.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Timothy (ch. V, v. 13)
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
Oscar Wilde
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He's gone, and who knows how may he report
Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Samson Agonistes (l. 1,350)
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The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde
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Live that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Will Rogers
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He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue
Mark Twain
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He that covereth a transgression seeketh love: but he that
repeateth a matter separateth very friends.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XVII, v. 9)
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Whoever keeps an open ear
For tattlers will be sure to hear
The trumpet of contention.
William Cowper
Quotes , Source: Friendship (st. 17)
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If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit
next to me.
John Heywood
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (pt. I, ch. X)
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You do not know it but you are the talk of all the town.
[Lat., Fabula (nec sentis) tota jactaris in urba.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Art of Love (III, 1, 21)
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But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unreasonable.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , Source: The Life and Death of King John (Pembroke at IV, ii)
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