secrets

I used to get into bed with my mother every morning, almost until she died, and talk about everything. She was my closest confidante always. I had no secrets from her.

Science is to be much commended for the ingenuity, the patience, and the persistency it displays in the invention of instruments wherewith to ferret out the secrets of nature.

There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Is it right to probe so deeply into Nature's secrets? The question must here be raised whether it will benefit mankind, or whether the knowledge will be harmful.

Even in your thought do not curse the king nor in your bedchamber curse the rich for a bird of the air will carry your voice or some winged creature tell the matter.

What is told in the ear of a man is often heard 100 miles away.

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire but my heart is all my own.

Whatsoever ye have spoken in darkness shall be heard in the light and that which ye have spoken in the ear in closets shall be proclaimed upon the housetops.

Where secrecy reigns carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

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

Two things a man cannot hide: that he is drunk and that he is in love.

Nothing is so burdensome as a secret.

Be secret and exult Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing like a hidden physical defect.

It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time.

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.

She said she never wanted to have secrets from me nor from herself, which is why she wanted to write down everything that otherwise would be hard to talk about. As I said, later I understood that someone who flees into honesty like that fears something, fears that her life will fill with something that can no longer be shared, a genuine secret, indescribable, unutterable.