Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

Show me someone who never gossips, and I'll show you someone who isn't interested in people.

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

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

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not read more

Avoid inquisitive persons, for they are sure to be gossips, their ears are open to hear, but they will not keep what is entrusted to them.

Your neighbor is the man who needs you

Your neighbor is the man who needs you

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

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

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

See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.

See that your own hearth is swept before you lift your neighbor's ashes.