Refuse to participate in gossip — tearing down, inflating, and judging other people.

If the person you’re speaking to will think worse or less of the person you’re speaking about, then it’s gossip, so cut it out!

Stop listening to the bombastic loudmouths on the radio and television and the Internet. To hell with them. They don’t want anything done for the public good. Our incapacity is their livelihood

If you hear I'm dead, don't come to my funeral.

Nobody named Cheerful Charley is tuned in on my wavelength

if there is listening through a “listener,” then we are not listening.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

I got this story from someone who had no business in the telling of it.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

But when I was a child, the grown-ups taught us to ignore malicious gossip, and never to dignify it with a response.

What is proper to hear, no one, human or divine, will hear before you.

Don’t dialogue with someone you can talk to.

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.