Josh Billings Quotes

On Rumor's tongue continual slanders ride.

No whispered rumors which the many spread can wholly perish.

RUMOUR: "Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports.

If it were not for a goodly supply of rumors, half true and half false, what would the gossips do?

There are always going to be ridiculous rumours.

How easily some light report is set about, but how difficult to bear.

I think people will believe anything about someone they haven't seen for a while.

We can't control it, and we've basically quit trying. People are going to talk, and people are going to lie.

If you discuss other people, words get twisted; things get turned around.

People love to yammer on about things that aren't real.

Don't believe everything you hear on the street.

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

When you're in the middle of a rumor storm, your two choices are not very good .... And there are some Americans who will believe that where there's smoke there's fire.

It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say. You know, don't judge a person, do not pass judgement, unless you have talked to them one on one. I don't care what the story is, do not judge them because it is a lie.

People will hear one thing and just run with it.

The thing about rumors is that everyone believes something about them, even if they are completely unfounded.

Speculation and rumor is nothing new in the industry.

The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it.

Lying rumours do not penetrate farther than our ears.

Nine-tenths of the world is entertained by scandalous rumors, which are never dissected until they are dead and, when pricked, collapse like an empty bladder.

Gossip lies nine times and tells a half truth the tenth.

I should never go with rumors because they're often not correct.

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

Rumor is not always wrong

And everyone knows you can’t disprove a rumor.