Mishnah 5 - Chapter 1 - Pirkei Avot

Yosei ben yochanan ish yerushalayim omer. Yehi veitecha patuach lirvachah, veyihyu aniyim benei veitecha, ve'al tarbeh sichah im ha'ishah. Be'ishto ameru, kal vachomer be'eshet chavero. Mikkan ameru chachamim, kol zeman she'adam marbeh sichah im ha'ishah, gorem ra'ah le'atzmo, uvotel middivrei torah, vesofo yoresh geihinnam.

Yose ben Yochanan (a of Jerusalem used to say:Let thy house be wide open, and let the poor be members of thy household. Engage not in too much conversation with women. They said this with regard to one’s own wife, how much more [does the rule apply] with regard to another man’s wife. From here the Sages said: as long as a man engages in too much conversation with women, he causes evil to himself, he neglects the study of the Torah, and in the end he will inherit gehinnom.

Yossi ben Yochanan Ish Yerushalayim says: Let your house be open wide, [like the house of our father Abraham, may peace be upon him, which was open on all four sides, so that guests would not have to make a circuit to find the door], and let the poor [of Israel] be the dwellers of your house, [— that one not hire (gentile) servants to serve him. Better that Jews benefit from his possessions and not the seed of the accursed Canaan.], and do not overindulge in speech with the woman. [From "the woman" as opposed to "a woman" we derive that they said this] of one's own wife; how much more so (does this apply) with the wife of one's neighbor! [Others explain that this applies to his wife in a state of niddah, so that he not come to the sin itself; but the language of the Mishnah seems to imply that even his wife in a non-niddah state is intended. And thus have the sages (Chagigah 5b) said (Amos 4:13): "And He tells a man what his converse is" — Even superfluous converse between a man and his wife is recounted to a man at the time of judgment (and he is held accountable for it — unless he must predispose her to the act of mitzvah [i.e., cohabitation], as in the instance of Rav, who would converse and "play" (with her) and then live with her] — whence the sages derived: When a man engages in superfluous converse with his wife, he brings evil upon himself. [Rabbeinu Hakadosh, who codified the Mishnah, wrote: From the words of this sage, who said: "And do not overindulge in speech with the woman," the sages taught that whenever a man engages in superfluous converse with his wife he brings evil upon himself. (I found it written that when a man relates to his wife: "This and this is what happened to me with that man," she teaches him to stir up strife, as in the instance of Korach, who related to his wife that Moses had "lifted up the Levites" — her reply incited him to strife.) Or, when he tells her that his friends demeaned and humiliated him, she, too, scorns him in her heart, and he thereby brings evil upon himself], and, [by preoccupying himself with idle talk,] he neglects Torah study, and, in the end, inherits Gehinnom.]