If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees. – Khalil Gibran, Sand and Foam Category: Gossip
I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody. – Benjamin Franklin Category: Gossip
If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile. – Mark Twain Category: Swimming
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. – Arthur Conan Doyle Category: Nature