A scholar does not wish to be always pumping his brains…

Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor…

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

— Confucius

Who gossips with you will gossip of you

— Anonymous

Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.

— George Herbert

Always remember that some people will gossip and talk about you because when they talk about themselves... no one cares.

— Jazz Mhr

At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood.…

— Peter Stone

“You and your husband have, I think, been very fortunate to know so little, by experience, in your own case or in that of…

— Lewis Carroll

Who gossips so much around here?

— Bette Davis

Too many individuals are like Shakespeare's definition of "echo,"--babbling gossips of the air.

— Josh Billings

“Without self-discipline, your streams of grace become a flood of disgrace. Never let indiscipline weigh you down for critics to pick mockeries on.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.

— Louis Kronenberger

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.

— Anonymous

If they don't depend on true evidence, scientists are no better than gossips.

— Penelope Fitzgerald

Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Every thought is public, Every nook is wide; Thy gossips spread each whisper, And the gods from side to side.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson