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Rumor is not always wrong -- Tacitus
Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures. -- William Shakespeare
Rumor does not always err; it sometimes even elects a man. -- Tacitus
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. -- Will Rogers
Rumor is untraceable, incalculable, and infectious. -- Margot Asquith
Death is a distant rumor to the young. -- Andy Rooney
Rumor ... often is fathered and mothered by false reports. -- Andre Norton
Rumor is rarely more interesting than fact, but it is always more readily available. -- Stephen L. Carter
Rumor with her ten thousand tongues is diffusing her uncertain sounds in almost every ear.. -- Joseph Smith, Jr.
Rumor is a vagrant without a home, and lives upon what it can pick up. -- Josh Billings
Rumor and gossip, like sound itself, appear to travel by wave-effect, sheer preposterosity being no barrier. -- Shana Alexander
Rumor is like bees; the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them. -- Josh Billings
Rumor had it that he was homosexual; in reality, in recent years, he was simply a garden-variety alcoholic. -- Michel Houellebecq
Rumor, once started, rushes on like a river, until it mingles with, and is lost in the sea. -- Antoine Rivarol
Before I was even in high school, I had dark circles under my eyes. Rumor was that I was a junkie. I have dark circles under my eyes, deal with it. -- Benicio Del Toro
Every Gag I tell must be based on truth. No matter how much I may exaggerate it, it must have a certain amount of Truth.... Now Rumor travels Faster, but it don't stay put as long as Truth. -- Will Rogers
People rely on Wikipedia, and a lot of it is wrong. But because there it is on the Internet, they assume it's right. Rumor gets printed as fact. We may have lost our critical facility as a nation. -- Ben Mezrich
A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. -- Aldous Huxley
Corpses were real. He had heard about these cannibal dead walkers in the northeast, but they were in fact real. Rumor had it that one - just one - had made its way down towards the Mid-Atlantic.The rumored Dead Walker lived. -- Laurel Jay
Rumor goes forth at once, Rumor than whom No other speedier evil thing exists; She thrives by rapid movement, and acquires Strength as she goes; small at the first from fear, She presently uplifts herself aloft, And stalks upon the ground and hides her head Among the clouds. -- Virgil
Nothing is swifter than rumor. -- Horace
Every rumor is believed against the unfortunate. -- Publilius Syrus
The biggest liar in the world is They Say. -- Douglas Malloch
the rumors of the White Sox demise are greatly exaggerated. -- Mark Twain
Enemies carry a report in form different from the original. -- Plautus
I've discovered that the less I say, the more rumors I start. -- Bobby Clarke
trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. -- Shana Alexander
A rumor is one thing that gets thicker instead of thinner as it is spread. -- Richard Armour
Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth. -- George Washington
We must set up a strong present tense against all rumors of wrath, past and to come. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You know what rumors are like-like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place. -- Rhys Bowen
Rumour was the messenger Of defamation, and so swift, that none Could be the first to tell an evil tale. -- Robert Pollok
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs. -- Andy Warhol
Rumour 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
Rumors are like lightning on summer tinder, producing flames that dance in flickering brilliance from person to person, sometimes flaring in great conflagrations of exaggeration before finally extinguishing themselves in the cold waters of fact. -- Stephen Leigh
Today, people can say anything they want. Suddenly it gets in the rumor mill and then it evolves and then somehow it becomes fact and you say, What is this? You know, why don't you ask me? -- Tom Cruise
He that easily believes rumors has the principle within him to augment rumors. It is strange to see the ravenous appetite with which some devourers of character and happiness fix upon the sides of the innocent and unfortunate. -- Jane Porter
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The nature of rumor is known to all. -- Tertullian
I don't mind being criticized. I enjoy being criticized personally, not by rumor. -- Gil Scott-Heron
Nobody knows anything about Shakespeare the person. It's all legend, it is all rumor. -- Jeanette Winterson
The rumor that the state of my health will necessitate my resignation is entirely unfounded. -- Frederick William Borden
You know, I've never actually really believed that death is inevitable. I just think it's a rumor. -- David Carradine
It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others. -- Calvin Klein
Appreciate the power of rumor, often malicious, no matter how preposterous, within the local populations you are seeking to help. -- Alvin Adams
I'm not a Mensa member. I have no idea where that rumor came from. I never have been, and I doubt if I ever will be. -- Ben Stein
You think you had it bad when somebody put out a rumor on you in the school; think about somebody putting a rumor out about you on the Internet. -- Nelly
I started selling out comedy clubs before I got to town with no advertising. I was selling out theaters just on the rumor that I was going to be there. -- Ron White
I feel like there is always a rumor that I'm dating someone that I never met before. People have their judgments and ideas of who I am, and they know nothing. -- Lauren London
I did what I could to inflate the rumor I was on my way to stardom. What I was on my way to, by any mathematical standards known to man, was oblivion, by way of obscurity. -- Tallulah Bankhead
I like James Franco. I think he's really cute. I remember a while ago there was a rumor going around that he was getting married and all my friends and I were freaking out. Yeah, I think he's cute! -- Miranda Cosgrove
The standard rumor at the time was that Rumsfeld, as chief of staff, had persuaded President Ford to appoint George H.W. Bush as director of Central Intelligence, assuming that that got rid of a potential competitor for the presidency. -- Bobby Ray Inman
There's a rumor that there may be an attempt at organizing a possible script for a series on my life, which, when you look at my police record, you'd have to have more than one hour to tell the story. -- Merle Haggard
I really felt like I finally made it. Having your first fake pregnancy rumor. It was really awesome. I feel like it's part of what happens in this business, but that's a real one. That's a cool one to get. -- Lea Michele
It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers! -- Warwick Davis
A rumor that followed me forever was that my family was in the mafia. For years I had to live with it. They'd call me the mafia princess, so I rolled with it for the rest of high school. People even joke about it today. -- Giuliana Rancic
If there's a pregnancy rumor, people will find out it's not true when you wind up not being pregnant, like nine months from now, and if there's a house rumor, they'll find out it's not true when you are actively not ever spotted at that house. -- Taylor Swift
I've heard rumors about myself that are true - and nobody likes that. But there's actually something very liberating when you hear a false rumor because you realize there's nothing you can do. People are going to say whatever they want - especially on chat boards. -- Christian Borle
I just don't like when there's a rumor that says I'm dating someone who is below my standards. But when I got divorced, my ex-wife said I was spending all my time with Lindsay Lohan and Angelina Jolie. I was like, 'Thank you for the big ups!' -- Marilyn Manson
For a long time, there was this rumor that I turned down doing 'Austin Powers,' which is not true. While they did send me the script, I don't think I was ever a serious consideration to direct it. I'm sure they probably sent it to 20 others as well. -- Terry Zwigoff
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started that rumor. I noticed if I did weights a couple of times a week, I would be able to hit that jab a lot longer. After sparring, everybody's gone, and I sneak into the weight room. Spend 40 minutes in there lifting weights. -- George Foreman
Memory... is an internal rumor. -- George Santayana
History: A distillation of rumor. -- Thomas Carlyle
The nature of rumor is known to all -- Tertullian
And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor. -- Jay Asher
RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character. -- Ambrose Bierce
I heard a rumor that I had...left the earth -- Cody Simpson
When a rumor doesn't go away it's not a rumor -- Elton John
Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job. -- Terry Pratchett
Mollem credere te virum volebam, sed rumor negat esse te cinaedum." -- Marcus Valerius Martialis
A plausible rumor / Seems a lot more believable / Than the truth itself. -- Kobo Abe
The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. -- Stefan Zweig
the not-so-bookish librarian was half angel, half she-devil, so sayeth the rumor mill. -- Ellen Hopkins
The mind that's conscious of its rectitude, Laughs at the lies of rumor. -- Ovid
A rumor is like a check--never endorse it till you're sure it's genuine. -- Grenville Kleiser
A rumor is usually a lie that the media can legally profit from. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I heard a rumor that your mom and dad ran away from home. -- Bobby Heenan
Most women indulge in idle gossip, which is the henchman of rumor and scandal. -- Octave Feuillet
The ball of rumor and criticism, once it starts rolling, is difficult to stop. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Everyone's just telling me that there's this rumor going around that I'm dying of cancer -- Kyle Massey
Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn't. -- Gerard Way
As for blondes having more fun, well, let me dispel that rumor forever. They do. -- Maureen Lipman
My favorite lie was the online rumor that Bruce Willis was my uncle. That's hilarious. -- Kreayshawn
Washington is the place where nobody believes a rumor until it has been officially denied. -- Evan Esar
Foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames. -- Joshua Homme
I heard a bustling rumor like a fray, And the wind blows it from the Capitol. -- William Shakespeare
The single most effective way to get rid of rumor and speculation is to be transparent. -- Phil Cooke
The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor. -- Terence McKenna
Gossip and rumor are evil; easy to lift up, heavy to carry, and hard to put down again. -- Hesiod
The vacuum created by a failure to communicate will quickly be filled with rumor, misrepresentations, drivel, and poison. -- C. Northcote Parkinson
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports." -- Will Eisner
Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. -- Will Eisner
Overly persuasive a woman's ordinance spreads far, traveling fast; but fast dying a rumor voiced by a woman perishes. -- Aeschylus
I heard this rumor that al Qaeda is merging with Hamas. Yeah, I got that tip from Martha Stewart. -- David Letterman
To tell others thatIt is a rumor Will not do. When your own heart asks How will you respond~? -- Gosen Wakash?
Never repeat a rumor before you have verified it. And if it is true, hold your tongue all the more. -- Selma LagerlÃ¶f
There's a rumor going around that I'm Miss Goody-two-shoes from Australia. Well, that's a laugh. I'm really Miss Goody-two-shoes from England! -- Olivia Newton-John
My poor mom really wants me to meet someone. I think she wanted to believe the Ryan Gosling rumor more than anybody, -- Michelle Williams
If a rumor comes out that I'm gay, I could care less. There are so many worse things that they could be saying. -- James Van Der Beek
A week went by and nothing. But eventually, as they always will, the rumors reached me. And everyone knows you can't disprove a rumor. -- Jay Asher
If humor and rumor are needed more than faith and truth, then it tells me something about the kind of world we live today. -- Toba Beta
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined. -- Lucan
There is a vital force in rumor. Though crushed to earth, to all intents and purposes buried, it can rise again without apparent effort. -- Eleanor Robson Belmont
The big rumor going around is, we may begin bombing Iraq. Or, as the White House calls it, Operation Keep Enron Off The Front Page. -- Jay Leno
The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations. -- James C. Scott
I joined the PBA way before I should have because I heard a rumor they were going to limit the number of people who could get in. -- Don Johnson
There was a rumor that Jesse Jackson was going to go over there to talk with the Taliban, apparently they were having trouble rhyming the word Jihad. -- Jay Leno
The most famous rumor for me is that I had throat cancer. I never had throat cancer... I don't know why that started... The way I sing, probably. -- Bob Seger
The media, itself an arm of mega-corporate power, feeds the fear industry, so that people are primed like pumps to support wars on rumor, innuendo, legends, and lies. -- Mumia Abu-Jamal
I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies. -- Michelle Monaghan
[On Washington, D.C.:] There was no other city in the world where rumor fed upon itself so virulently. Whispers wiped out careers just as cholera destroyed its human victims. -- Evelyn Anthony
I donâ??t know whatâ??s the matter with me, why Iâ??m so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor. -- David Shields
The fact that all of us die anyway (the rumor turns out to be true) is a mere detail in the celestial glow of imagination. The artist's eyes destroy death. -- Herbert Gold
You try and live your life as normally as possible and if someone invents a rumor that I have two vaginas, so be it. There's nothing I can do about it. -- Michael Vartan
I was a big rugby player and into my motocross, so I lost loads of weight and a rumor went around the town that I had picked up a drug addiction! -- John Newman
Remember evil Russian dictator Vladimir Putin? He vanished for 10 days. He had disappeared and there were a lot of rumors. One rumor was he had disappeared because he had himself executed. -- David Letterman
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I tried to discover, in the rumor of forests and waves, words that other men could not hear, and I pricked up my ears to listen to the revelation of their harmony. -- Gustave Flaubert
I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again. -- Bill Gates

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