Gratitude Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Gratitude quotes, Gratitude sayings, and Gratitude proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.


A dog that will fetch a bone, will carry a bone.      -- R. Forby (1830) on gossip
Anyone who will gossip to you, will gossip about you.      -- unknown
Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.      -- unknown
Four horses cannot overtake the tongue.      -- Chinese (on gossip)
If you can't say anything nice, then don't say anything at all.      -- Aesop (c.620-560 BC)
If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.      -- Harry Truman (1884-1972)
It is easier to dam a river than to stop gossip.      -- Moro (Filipino) (on gossip)
Little said is soonest mended.      -- George Wither (1588-1667)
Never apologize before you are accused.      -- Charles I of Great Britain (1600-1649)
Not everything you hear is good for talk.      -- Japanese (on gossip)
Prophecy is the most gratuitous form of error.      -- George Eliot (1819-1880)
The house of the loud talker, leaks.      -- African proverb Zulu Tribe
Where there is smoke there is fire.      -- unknown
Words have no wings but they can fly a thousand miles.      -- Korean (on gossip)
Words once spoken can never be recalled.      -- Wentworth Dillon (c.1633-1685)
Words spoken are like eggs broken.     -- Sheri Glewen
You can't sew buttons on your neighbor's mouth.      -- Russian (on gossip)