Gossip is the opiate of the oppressed.
- Erica Jong
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
- Erica Jong
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong 
He who can take advice is sometimes superior
to him who can give it.
- Erica Jong
We are finally driven to monogamy
not by morality but by exhaustion.
- Erica Jong
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens?
A terrible thing: no one to blame.
- Erica Jong
The trouble is,
if you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.
- Erica Jong
Solitude is considered un-American.
- Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as a part of life -
specifically the fear of change...
I have gone ahead despite the pounding
in the heart that says: turn back.
- Erica Jong
Betrayal betrays the betrayer.
- Erica Jong
Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.
- Erica Jong
Hate generalizes; love is particular.
- Erica Jong
Men have always detested women's gossip
because they suspect the truth:
their measurements are being taken and compared.
- Erica Jong
Because I loved myself, I was loved.
- Erica Jong
My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes,
I want to go home and screw; After the first twenty minutes,
I never want to screw again as long as I live
- Erica Jong
Love gives without taking
- Erica Jong
Friends love misery, in fact.
Sometimes, especially if we are too lucky
or too successful or too pretty,
our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.
- Erica Jong
No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.
Writers, alas, have to be fools in public,
while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
- Erica Jong
If sex and creativity are often
seen by dictators as subversive activities,
it's because they lead to the knowledge
that you own your own body
(and with it your own voice), and that's
the most revolutionary insight of all.
- Erica Jong
The best slave does not need to be beaten. She beats herself.
- Erica Jong
The trick is not how much pain you feel -
but how much joy you feel
- Erica Jong
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
In a bad marriage, friends are the invisible glue.
If we have enough friends, we may go on for years,
intending to leave, talking about leaving -
instead of actually getting up and leaving.
- Erica Jong
Gossip is the art of saying nothing
in a way that leaves practically nothing unsaid.
- Walter Winchell
Gossip and complaint are the underbelly of low conversation.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The most powerful force in the universe is: gossip.
- Dave Barry
How does so much gossip fit in such small minds?
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Apathy, indifference, not caring...
It may sound insensitive for me to say, "I don't care,"
but ask first to what I am indifferent.
I choose to be caring, compassionate
and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To a philosopher all news,
as it is called, is gossip,
and they who edit and read it
are old women over their tea.
- Henry David Thoreau
The whole world can gossip about you,
and if you don't take it personally you are immune.
- don Miguel Ruiz
It's just gossip, you know. Gossip is the new pornography.
- the Woody Allen movie Manhattan (1979)
Don't complain, don't whine, and don't gossip.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed
to sell your parrot to the town gossip.
- Will Rogers
Be Impeccable With Your Word.
Speak with integrity.
Say only what you mean.
Avoid using your word to speak against yourself
or to gossip about others.
Use the power of your word
in the direction of truth and love.
- don Miguel Ruiz
I choose to be caring, compassionate and kind toward all people,
and I also choose to be indifferent to gossip,
petty complaints, and idle chatter.
About those, I just don't care.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
While you can and should keep your composure and happiness
regardless of circumstances - regardless of your friends,
family and co-workers - regardless of gossip, sarcasm, and negativity.
Nonetheless, life is much easier and more pleasant
when you spend as much time as possible
in the company of enthusiastic positive people -
not necessarily those who agree with you,
but those who respect your right to your point of view.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor;
it must be demanded by the oppressed.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
America and Israel share a special bond.
Our relationship is unique among all nations.
Like America, Israel is a strong democracy,
a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty,
a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
- William J. Clinton
Here are the opinions on which my facts are based.
- Anonymous
I love being married.
It's so great to find that one special person
you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
- Rita Rudner
The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on.
It is never of any use to oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
- W. C. Fields
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
- Mark Twain
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Life ... full of loneliness, and misery,
and suffering, and unhappiness,
and it's all over much too quickly.
- the Woody Allen movie Annie Hall
Yesterday is like a dung heap;
you can complain about the smell,
or you can use it to fertilize tomorrow's garden.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
Love conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
- Mae West
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
However beautiful the strategy,
you should occasionally look at the results.
- Winston Churchill
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
Life is like jumping out of an airplane without a parachute -
only the last couple seconds are fatal,
but most people are scared to death the whole way down.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you are not one of us, you are one of them.
- the movie The Matrix (1999)
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt
towards people whom we personally dislike.
- Oscar Wilde
This town needs an enema.
- the movie Batman
Tip the world over on its side and
everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
I think you're the opposite of a paranoid.
I think you go around with the insane delusion that people like you.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
- Mark Twain
I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.
- Groucho Marx
You'll live to be a hundred if you give up
all the things that make you want to.
- the movie Interiors
Oh, if only God would give me some sign.
If He would just speak to me once. Anything.
One sentence. Two words. If He would just cough.
- the movie Love and Death
I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln
The worst part of success is to try to find
someone who is happy for you.
- Bette Midler
A man likes his wife to be
just clever enough to appreciate his cleverness,
and just stupid enough to admire it.
- Israel Zangwill
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
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