Quotes of Hearsay - somelinesforyou

“ The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told; And all who told it added something new. And all who heard it made enlargements too. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Rumors are like soap bubbles. They can be produced en masse by a little bamboo tube, and thus cannot be effectively refuted one by one. ”

- Unknown

“ The nature of rumor is known to all. ”

- Tertullian

“ I don't have to listen to rumors about a man when I can judge him for myself. ”

- Stephen King

“ How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments. ”

- Philip Sidney

“ Malicious rumours can spread confusion. A careless remark can be as a cigarette butt casually tossed into the dumpster, smouldering until it bursts into flame and engulfs a neighborhood. ”

- Margaret Atwood

“ Rumors are like wind in the belly — all noise and no nourishment. ”

- Unknown

“ Rumors are like harpoons — once they go in, they're hard to pull out. ”

- Unknown

“ False rumors are like mistresses: more exciting initially than wives, but more deadly. ”

- Gary North

“ "I must've seen it in a USENET posting"; that's sort of like hearsay evidence from Richard Nixon. ”

- Blair Houghton

“ The first rule to observe about rumors is that they are often exactly opposite in tendency to the coming fact. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Rumors have wings. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls. ”

- Chuck Swindoll

“ Be hospitable to rumors, for however grotesque they are, they always have some reason for existence. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ I like rumors. I find out so much about me that I didn't even know! ”

- Unknown
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