If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

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To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.

All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God.

How ever do we praise ourselves, our fancies are more giddy and uniform, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and worn, than women's are.

When wasteful war shall statues overturn,
And broils root out the work of masonry,
Nor Mars his sword nor wars quick fire shall burn
The living record of your memory.

More quotations tagged with “secrets”

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.

—Scipione Alberti

Trade your secrets and become who you are.

—Saint Jerome

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.

—Kenneth Tynan

Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.

—Kahlil Gibran

If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

—George Bernard Shaw

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