Joseph Hall Quotes

Gossip is conversation about people.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

All we have to do is listen. The Good Lord gave us two ears and only one mouth, my dear white-headed mother used to say.

gossip is just the small change of conversation.

Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies.

The danger lies not in the big ears of little pitchers, but in the large mouths.

It's not so much knowing when to speak, when to pause.

There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

How time files when you's doin' all the talking.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

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

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

Listen closely as those around you speak; great truths are revealed in jest.

Gossip is more popular than literature.

Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.

He kept his ear so close to the ground that it was full of grasshoppers.

I'm a talker.

Some people will always gossip.

The film business talks a lot. People talk a lot. There's a lot of chatting. There's a lot of behind-the-scenes chatting. There's a lot of talking before you go and do it.

Rumors chase the dead like flies, and we follow them with our prim noses. None of us are gossips, but we love listening to those who are.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear

One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.