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And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. - Bible, I Timothy (ch. V, v. 13) Idle rumors were also added to well-founded apprehensions. [Lat., Vana quoque ad veros accessit fama timores.] - Lucanus (Marcus Annaeus Lucan), Pharsalia (I, 469) Some report elsewhere whatever is told them; the measure of fiction always increases, and each fresh narrator adds something to what he has heard. [Lat., Hi narrata ferunt alio; mensuraque ficti Crescit et auditus aliquid novus adjicit auctor.] - Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), Metamorphoses (XII, 57) Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. [Lat., Nam inimici famam non ita ut nata est ferunt.] - Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus), Persa (III, 1, 23) 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, Temple of Fame (l. 468) Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. - Will Rogers I cannot tell how the truth may be; I say the tale as 'twas said to me. - Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto II, st. 22) I will be gone, That pitiful rumor may report my flight To consolate thine ear. - William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well (Helena at III, ii) Rumor doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Warwick at III, i) Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures, And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part II (Rumor at induction) What some invent the rest enlarge. - Jonathan Swift, Journal of a Modern Lady The rolling fictions grow in strength and size, Each author adding to the former lies. - Jonathan Swift, Tr. of Ovid--Examiner (no. 15) Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. [Lat., Ad calamitatem quilibet rumor valet.] - Syrus (Publilius Syrus), Maxims Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. - Tacitus (Caius Cornelius Tacitus), Agricola (IX) There is nothing which cannot be perverted by being told badly. - Terence (Publius Terentius Afer), Phormio (act IV) It (rumour) has a hundred tongues, a hundred mouths, a voice of iron. [Lat., Linguae centum sunt, oraque centum Ferrea vox.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), Georgics (II, 44), (adapted) Straightway throughout the Libyan cities flies rumor;--the report of evil things than which nothing is swifter; it flourishes by its very activity and gains new strength by its movements; small at first through fear, it soon raises itself aloft and sweeps onward along the earth. Yet its head reaches the clouds. . . . A huge and horrid monster covered with many feathers: and for every plume a sharp eye, for every pinion a biting tongue. Everywhere its voices sound, to everything its ears are open. [Lat., Extemplo Libyae magnas it Fama per urbes: Fama malum quo non velocius ullum; Mobilitate viget, viresque acquirit eundo; Parva metu primo; mox sese attollit in auras, Ingrediturque solo, et caput inter nubilia condit. . . . . Monstrum, horrendum ingens; cui quot sunt corpore plumae Tot vigiles oculi subter, mirabile dictu, Tot linquae, totidem ora sonant, tot subrigit aures.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (IV, 173) The rumor forthwith flies abroad, dispersed throughout the small town. [Lat., Fama volat parvam subito vulgata per urbem.] - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil), The Aeneid (VIII, 554)
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