Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

Conor Oberst

Because the truth is that gossip is as good as gospel in this town. You can save face but you won't ever save your soul. And that's a fact.

Ambrose Bierce

Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

Tamara Mellon

I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

When gossip gets old it becomes a myth.

Shana Alexander

Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier.

Mercedes Lackey

It's only gossip if you repeat it. Until then, it's gathering information.

Kin Hubbard

There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it.

Plautus

Tattletales, and those who listen to their slander, by my good will, should all be hanged. The former by their tongues, the latter by their ears. [Lat., Homines qui gestant, quique auscultant crimina, si meo arbitratu liceat, omnes pendeant gestores linguis, auditores auribus.]

Bible Bible

Now, my God, let, I beseech thee, thine eyes be open, and let thine ears be attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 6:40)

Bible Bible

Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place. (2 Chronicles 7:15)

Lucius Accius

Not at all do I trust augurs, who enrich the ears of others, so that they can enrich their own homes with gold.

Jane Smiley

Hungry ears are sharp ones.

Tug McGraw

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Stephen King

I know I can do it," Todd Downey said, helping himself to another ear of corn from the steaming bowl. "I'm sure that in time her death will be a mystery, even to me.

Taylor Schilling

Well, a lot of things surprised me. There were things that I had never thought about, in my life. I never thought about how loud prison was. I've never thought about how your ears never really get a break from all this noise. That was actually replicated on our set pretty well.

Juicy J

I work on holidays. I work on birthdays. I work on New Year's. I work. I keep my ears to the streets.

Jean Philippe Rameau

We must have recourse to the rules of music when our genius and our ear seem to deny what we are seeking.

Brigid Brophy

We Irish had the right word on the tip of our tongue, but the imperialist got at that. What should trip off it we trip over.

Anne Sexton

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

Rumi

Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.

Matthew Hale

It is a sign that your reputation is small and sinking if your own tongue must praise you.

Jennifer Weiner

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

Jonathan Swift

I'm as old as my tongue and a little older than my teeth.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

My tongue is prone to lose the way,Not so my pen, for in a letterWe have not better things to say,But surely put them better.