Conquering any difficulty always gives
one a secret joy, for it means pushing
back a boundary-line
and adding to one's liberty.
?Henri Frédéric Amiel
Why is it that fools always have the instinct
to hunt out the unpleasant secrets of life,
and the hardiness to mention them?
?Emily Eden
Love ceases to be a pleasure,
when it ceases to be a secret.
?Aphra Behn
Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and
ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light.
?Daniel C. Gelman
Three can keep a secret,
if two are dead.
?Benjamin Franklin
To keep your secret is wisdom; but
to expect others to keep it is folly.
?Samuel Johnson
A secret is like a dove: when it
leaves my hand it takes wing.
?Arabian Proverb
How can we accept another to keep our secret
if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.
?Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it
secret, then tell him the truth.
?Portuguese Proverb
Trust him not with your secrets,
who, when left alone in your room,
turns over your papers.
?Johann Kaspar Lavater
Confession is always weakness. The
grave soul keeps its own secrets, and
takes its own punishment in silence.
?Dorothy Dix
I usually get my stuff from people who promised
somebody else that they would keep it a secret.
?Walter Winchell
God could cause us considerable embarrassment
by revealing all the secrets of nature to us:
we should not know what to do
for sheer apathy and boredom.
?Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
