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Many a wretch has rid on a hurdle who has done less mischief than utterers of forged tales, coiners of scandal, and clippers of reputation. - Richard Brinsley Sheridan How violently do rumors blow the sails of popular judgments! How few there be that can discern between truth and truth-likeness, between shows and substance! - Sir Philip Sidney (Sydney) The tale-bearer and the tale-hearer should be both hanged up, back to back, one by the tongue, the other by the ear. - Bishop Robert South 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 flourishes by its very activity, and gains new strength by its movements. - Virgil or Vergil (Publius Virgilius Maro Vergil) 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) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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