gossip

It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made --- so faithful is the public.

A powerful truth is that if we love the Lord, love His Word, love His people, and love one another, we won__ want to gossip.

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

Because instant and credible information has to be given, it becomes necessary to resort to guesswork, rumors and suppositions to fill in the voids, and none of them will ever be rectified, they will stay on in the readers' memory. How many hasty, immature, superficial and misleading judgments are expressed every day, confusing readers, without any verification. The press can both simulate public opinion and miseducate it. Thus we may see terrorists heroized, or secret matters, pertaining to one's nation's defense, publicly revealed, or we may witness shameless intrusion on the privacy of well-known people under the slogan: "everyone is entitled to know everything." But this is a false slogan, characteristic of a false era: people also have the right not to know, and it is a much more valuable one. The right not to have their divine souls stuffed with gossip, nonsense, vain talk. A person who works and leads a meaningful life does not need this excessive burdening flow of information.

Yet simple souls, their faith it knows no stint:Things least to be believed are most preferred.All counterfeits, as from truth's sacred mint,Are readily believed if once put down in print

People would say bad things about you, because it is the only way their insignificant self can feel better than you.

It is not so much freedom of speech but the right to truth that great men protect.

With enough mental gymnastics, just about any fact can become misshapen in favor to one's confirmation bias.

When the word is heard consult the source, and beware the messenger.

She struts into the hair salon, her mouth filled with a rotten egg of gossip, unshelled, filled with decay. As soon as she sits down she bites into the shell, and the stink of her lies fills the air, its goo dripping down her chin. With her new haircut she exits, leaving behind the putrid evidence that she__ as corrupt as the egg of lies she spread.

True or false, that which is set of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do.

Sure, Mom.They stop and say hello, and then once you pass they talk the back off you like you were nothing. They assess your outfit, your hairstyle, and they garble what you say so it comes out ugly.

People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.

Most people, including Ma, preferred to brush unpleasantness away, as if, by sweeping it outside with the dust, it could be forgotten. As if, by acknowledging the existence of something unsavory in their community, they might be tainted by it themselves.

It was horrible of a young girl to let herself be talked about; however unfounded the charges against her, she must be to blame for their having been made.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

But you know that any showing of such an innovation is apt to start gossip. Just why, I don__ know. It, though, is a trait of Mankind only. Animals don__ __loom_ out so abruptly. You can hunt through Biology, Zoology or any similar study, and find but slow, -awfully slow,_ adaptations toward any form of variation. Hurrying was not known until Man got around.

Has Westhaven taken to gossiping?""He has not, but like most men, you assume the only communications of significance pass between the males of the species.