Rumors are like wildfire; you are burned up before you know it. - Kenneth D. Mcllroy
Rumors are like wind in the belly – all noise and no nourishment. - Unknown
Rumors are not news; but they sometimes foreshadow news. - Ernest Hamlin Abbott
Rumors are often recycled. People rely on those narrative templates that have proved to be plausible and durable in the past. Rumors appear, are spread, and then disappear – ignored – until similar circumstances make the stories appropriate once again. - Gary Alan Fine & Bill Ellis
Rumors are seen as crimes committed by third parties. They are perfect crimes and leave not the slightest trace and require no weapons whatsoever – the defense is left without a leg to stand on. - Jean-Noel Kapferer
Rumors are the oldest form of mass media. - Jean-Noel Kapferer
Rumors are transmitted because they are surprising, funny, or shocking, and the teller wishes to entertain the listeners. Similar to the telling of a joke, the passing of a rumor provides entertainment and prestige. That is why urban legends last so long: they are savoured at the end of a meal, or in a bar while sipping on an after-dinner drink; they provide a certain momentary pleasure in consuming. - Gail de Vos
Rumors can shape the public opinion of a society by affecting and coordinating the individual beliefs of its members. - Zheng You Xia & LaiLei Huang
Rumors have wings. - Aeschylus
Rumors may appear to be random and sometimes malicious accounts of ongoing situations. Yet they serve an extremely important function. Rumors are a means of transmitting critical information about the nature of the disaster situation within the affected population. This information may be simplistic, incomplete, and even incorrect. Nevertheless, it gives disaster victims some guidance and structure in a highly unusual, uncertain situation. - Saundra K. Schneider
Rumours generally grow deformed as they travel. - Edward Counsel
Some people and some groups are predisposed to accept certain rumors, because those rumors are compatible with their self-interest, or with what they think they know to be true. - Cass R. Sunstein
Some rumors are entirely true. Others contain grains of truth; still others contain none at all. Plausible or implausible, truthful or false, rumors circulate because people are trying to get to the bottom of a matter. The acceptance or rejection of a given rumor in a given time or place depends on its ability to satisfy this need to understand. - Ksenija Bilbija
The attempt to control a rumor is like trying to package fog. - Allan J. Kimmel
The subject of a rumor is always the last to hear it. - Stefan Zweig
There exists no strict line between a rumor and information. The dividing line between information and a rumor is subjective and the result of one's own belief. People call something information when they consider it true and call it a rumor when they consider it false. - Mark Schindler
Those who feed on rumors are small, suspicious souls. - Charles R. Swindoll
Trying to dispel a rumor is like trying to unspread butter. - Lloyd Cary
Trying to squash a rumor is like trying to unring a bell. - Croft M Pentz
Where the public wants to understand but does not receive any official answers, there are rumors. Rumors are the black market of information. - Mark Schindler
You know what rumors are like – like a jar full of moths. Once they escape, they're all over the place. - Rhys Bowen
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