A good lawyer can be celebrated, but a wonderful gossip has never been rewarded. Be silent in advertising the weaknesses, shortcomings, failures, and misfortunes of others. 

A gossip is a newscaster without a sponsor. Don't you have other other meaningful things to occupy your life with? 

The only people who are paid for talking are lawyers and a few others who are engaged in one form of talking business or the other. 

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How much value have been added to your life through gossiping, criticism and lying about others?  What price tag has been placed on you for putting people down?  What people don't know is that to bring everybody down, they have to be down themselves. 

To eat from the fruit of your labour, you must work, not talk. Have you ever seen an advert placed in the newspapers looking for good and experienced gossip? 
Gossip separates the best of friends, destroys business and tears apart homes. 
Roy. L. Smith say : 

> Running people down is a bad habit, whether you are a gossip or a motorist. 

Gossiping and it's by products is wrong thinking. Stop inventing with your mouth what you don't ever with your eyes. Don't hang around with people that discuss others, be around with those that discuss vision. 

Gossiping is a product of lazy minds. Lazy minds are never engaged in productive thinking. If you don't engage your brain to meaningful work, you will walk yourself out of your destiny. 

Stop lazing around and start living. Find something worth occupying your time, energy and brain. If you have nothing to do, read good books and upgrade your mind. 

> Half the evil in the world is gossip started by good people. 

Remember, gossip like sewage smells deadly. A Spanish proverb says, 

> Whoever gossips to you will gossip of you. 

> Fire goes out for lack of fuel, and quarrels disappear when gossip stops. 

Great gossips are not helpers of destiny. A gossip separates you from the very people strategically placed in your life to help you on your pathway to destiny. 
According to George Meredith, "gossip is social sewage. " Running people down is not the habit of champions. If you have nothing good to say about someone, keep your mouth shut. A closed mouth catches no flies. Silence seldom hurts. Nobody will ever call you to defend what you didn't say. 
A latin proverb says, 

> Keep quiet and people will think you are a philosopher.