An idle tongue is the mother of all conflicts.

One day, perhaps, some idle tongue Mentions your name by accident: I feel as if a rose were flung Into the room, all hue…

— Author Name

Nothing is greater, or more fearful sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulancy of an idle tongue

— Jeremy Taylor

“Mind your words, for the wind is sentient.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Spread joy and laughter, not hate and rumors.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Never judge someone's character based on the words of another. Instead, study the motives behind the words of the person casting the bad judgment.…

— Suzy Kassem

“This month is fit for little. The dead ripen in the grapeleaves. A red tongue is among us. Mother, keep out of my barnyard,…

— Sylvia Plath

“Something, someone, cut off her head, yanked out her tongue. My mother is a middle-aged woman, a middle-class woman, a woman of moderate intelligence…

— Carol Shields

“Still, with an unshaken confidence that the English tongue was somehow the mother tongue of the whole world, only the people were too stupid…

— Anonymous

“But despite the ease, theirs was also a world of intrigue and secrets, in which wit and flashy derring-do were rewarded. In such circles,…

— Scott C. Johnson

Mothers are the only race of people that speak the same tongue. A mother in Manchuria could converse with a mother in Nebraska and…

— Will Rogers

“Consider the term Mother Tongue. In Russian the term is Rodnoi-yazyk, which means Nearest or Dearest Tongue. At a pinch one could call it…

— John Berger

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

— Dennis E Adonis

“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.”

— Suzy Kassem

“Saturday morning, the place is packed with gossiping old men.”

— Amy Cross

“Gossip is an idle talk that makes you look worse than the person you are talking about, and people tend to have more confidence…

— Uzoma Nnadi