A man can keep a secret better than his own. A woman her own better than others.


A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.


A secret between two is God's secret, between three is all men s.


A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.


But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun; Himself is his own dungeon.


Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity.


Everyone is like a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.


He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore.


His mind of man, a secret makes I meet him with a start he carries a circumference in which I have no part.


How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves.


I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life.


I know that's a secret, for it's whispered everywhere.


I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.


If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.


It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.


Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.


Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.


No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.


Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret.


O divine art of subtlety and secrecy! Through you we learn to be invisible, through you inaudible and hence we can hold the enemy's fate in our hands.

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