The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Diane Ackerman Diane Ackerman (born October 7, 1948) is an American poet, essayist, and naturalist known for her books and films.
More quotations from Diane Ackerman Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if we're creative. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: marriage Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life is a thing that mutates without warning, not always in enviable ways. All part of the improbable adventure of being alive, of being a brainy biped with giant dreams on a crazy blue planet. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: life Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Caregiver: that word should weigh more than others on a page, sag it down a bit and wrinkle it, because the simple-sounding job frazzles as it consumes and depletes. Not that it's only gloomy. Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. There's something uniquely fulfilling about being a lodestar, feeling so deeply needed, and it's fun finding creative ways to gladden a loved one's life. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity. —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Tags: brain Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
One can live at a low flame. Most people do. For some, life is an exercise in moderation (best china saved for special occasions), but given something like death, what does it matter if one looks foolish now and then, or tries too hard, or cares too deeply? —Diane Ackerman More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “secrets” Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. —Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret More about this quote Tags: privacy eternity secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. —Thomas Babington Macaulay More about this quote Tags: character morality secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. —Kenneth Tynan More about this quote Tags: secrets neuroses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. —Benjamin Franklin More about this quote Tags: secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever. —Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret More about this quote Tags: privacy eternity secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out. —Thomas Babington Macaulay More about this quote Tags: character morality secrets Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping. —Kenneth Tynan More about this quote Tags: secrets neuroses Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email