Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains, and traverses deserts with greater ease than the Scythian Abaris, and, like him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
Colton.
Slander travels farther and faster than truth, wounding like a poisoned arrow.
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We cannot control the evil tongues of others, but a good life enables us to despise them.
— Cato
Calumniators have neither good hearts, nor good understandings.
— Bulwer
Slander can be lived down by our manner of living; it is not lived down by words of indignation.
— Ellen G. White
I never think it needful to regard calumnies; they are sparks, which, if you do not blow them, will go out of themselves…
— Boerhave
To seem disturbed at calumny, is the way to make it believed, and stabbing your defamer, will not prove you innocent. Li…
— Dr. Blair
If a good life does not silence, it will disarm calumny.
— Unknown
