secrets

1.

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.

- Delillo, Don

2.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets; for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

- Taylor, Sir Henry

3.

One of the secrets of life is to make stepping stones out of stumbling blocks.

- Penn, Jack

4.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.

- Richelieu, Cardinal De

5.

All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.

- Cory Doctorow

6.

[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

- Theodor Herzl

7.

One of the secrets of life is to keep our intellectual curiosity acute.

- Phelps, William Lyon

8.

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.

- William Penn

9.

Art does not imitate life. Art is much more powerful than that. Art brings life back. And it does it by exposing the secrets we all carry inside.

- Jose Raul Bernardo

10.

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the secrets of business

- Charles M. Schwab

11.

What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.

- Andre Malraux

12.

CONFIDANT, CONFIDANTE, n. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided by _him_ to C.

- Ambrose Bierce

13.

The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may find yourself. If you have a secret, you have only to whisper it to your dearest friend with the strictest injunction that it will go no further, and within half a day the story is all over town, and when you do make what would seem to be a perfectly sensible remark, you will find it reported in the most grotesque form, thus incurring no end of criticism to rebound upon you.

- Elizabeth Aston

14.

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

- Frank Warren

15.

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed.

- Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

16.

One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.

- Naisbitt, John

17.

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

- Hugo, Victor

18.

You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.

- Auden, W. H.

19.

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

- Milton, John

20.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.

- Helen Keller