Have I inadvertently said some evil thing?

Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it.

—Spanish Proverb

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love.

—Spanish Proverb

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

—Spanish Proverb

Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.

—Spanish Proverb

Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.

—Sir Philip Sidney

Once you have listened to the gossip for some time, you will soon feel as if you know everyone, even if you have never met them.

—Phocion

Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

—Oscar Wilde

Never tell evil of a man, if you do not know it for certainty, and if you know it for a certainty, then ask yourself, 'Why should I tell it?

—Johann K. Lavater

There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it hardly behooves any of us
To talk about the rest of us.

—Edward Wallis Hoch