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Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once. - Winston Churchill It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go. - William Shakespeare One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

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

- Alexander Pope

Biography is higher gossip.

- Robert Winder

Even doubtful accusations leave a stain behind them.

- Thomas Fuller

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

- Leonard Woolf

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

- Bertrand Russell

Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.

- Earl Wilson

Gossip needs no carriage.

- Russian proverb

Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech.

- Ogden Nash

Hating anything in the way of ill-natured gossip ourselves, we are always grateful to those who do it for us and do it well.

- Saki

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: it, too, is a kind of divinity.

- Hesiod

Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.

- Kin Hubbard

The best-loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.

- John Hay

If you can't say something good about someone, sit right here by me.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

What some invent, the rest enlarge.

- Jonathan Swift

What people say behind your back is your standing in the community.

- Edgar Watson Howe

Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you.

- Spanish proverb

A little public scandal is good once in a while - takes the tension out of the news.

- Beryl Pfizer

Gossip is the art of saying nothing in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.

- Walter Wine hell