The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
Gossip is vice enjoyed vicariously - the sweet, subtle satisfaction without the risk.
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
The man who says "I may be wrong, but--" does not believe there can be any such possibility.
As to those who hoard gold and silver and spend it not in God's path, give them, then, the tidings of a painful agony: on a day when these things shall be heated in hell-fire, and their foreheads, and their sides, and their backs shall be branded therewith.
Who remembers when we used to rest on Sunday instead of Monday?