Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that’s where life starts. Don’t talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.

A gadabout gossip can’t be trusted with a secret, but someone of integrity won’t violate a confidence.

Wise People Take Advice

The gossip of bad people gets them in trouble; the conversation of good people keeps them out of it.

Mean people spread mean gossip; their words smart and burn.

Troublemakers start fights; gossips break up friendships.

Evil people relish malicious conversation; the ears of liars itch for dirty gossip.

Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy; do you really want junk like that in your belly?

Gossips can’t keep secrets, so never confide in blabbermouths.

Don’t talk about your neighbors behind their backs— no slander or gossip, please. Don’t say to anyone, “I’ll get back at you for what you did to me. I’ll make you pay for what you did!”

A north wind brings stormy weather, and a gossipy tongue stormy looks.

When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy; do you want junk like that in your belly?

When a leader listens to malicious gossip, all the workers get infected with evil.