Secrets Proverbs

Sayings about Secrets

Keep no secrets of thyself from thyself. ~ Greek Proverb

A secret is like a dove: when it leaves my hand it takes wing. ~ Arabian Proverb

Have an open face, but conceal your thoughts. ~ Italian Proverb

Do not keep secret from your friend what your enemy already knows. ~ Danish Proverb

Tell your friend a lie. If he keeps it secret, then tell him the truth. ~ Portuguese Proverb

What is told into the ear of a man is often heard a hundred miles away. ~ Chinese Proverb

Women can keep only one secret -- their own. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Nothing is such a heavy burden as a secret is. ~ French Proverb

Wine lets secrets out. ~ Chinese Proverb

Mother earth promised to tell her secrets to heaven. ~ Serbian Proverb

Truth fears nothing but concealment. ~ Traditional Proverb

Never do anything that you want to remain a secret. ~ Chinese Proverb

So long as I can keep a secret it is my prisoner. If I let it slip then I am its prisoner. ~ Arabian Proverb

Do not do all you can, do not spend all that you have, do not believe all that you hear, and do not tell all that you know. ~ Chinese Proverb

To whom you tell your secrets you resign your liberty. ~ Spanish Proverb

Sharing a secret with a rogue is like carrying grain in a bag with a hole. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

When two friends part they have to lock up each other's secrets and throw away the key. ~ Hebrew Proverb

What soberness conceals, drunkenness reveals. ~ Latin Proverb

A secret for two is soon a secret for nobody. ~ Algerian Proverb

Do not speak of secret matters in a field that is full of little hills. ~ Hebrew Proverb

Alms given openly will be rewarded in secret. ~ Chinese Proverb

Part with your head, but not with your secret. ~ Kurdish Proverb

The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do. ~ American Proverb

Love, pain, and money cannot be kept secret; they soon betray themselves. ~ Spanish Proverb

It is not a secret if it is known by three people. ~ Irish Proverb

When the Nile knows a secret the desert will soon know it too. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

Give up the smallest part of a secret, and the rest is no longer in your power. ~ German Proverb

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

Cover up the good you do -- do like the Nile and conceal your sources. ~ Egyptian Proverb

The sober man's secret is the drunkard's speech. ~ Russian Proverb

Do not tell a friend anything you would conceal from an enemy. ~ Saudi Arabian Proverb

Take hold lightly; let go lightly. This is one of the great secrets of felicity in love. ~ Spanish Proverb

Wine makes secrets float to the surface. ~ German Proverb

In strategy, secrecy is highly regarded. ~ Japanese Proverb

The secret of two no further will go; the secret of three a hundred will know. ~ Spanish Proverb

Your secret is your blood -- when you shed it you die. ~ Berber Proverb

Do not tell secrets in front of servants. ~ Arabian Proverb

The secret of patience is doing something else in the meantime. ~ Traditional Proverb

To sin in secret is more pleasant than having pleasure in the open. ~ Iranian Proverb

No blessing is bestowed on a secret. ~ Yiddish Proverb

The maxims of men disclose their hearts. ~ French Proverb

Confide a secret to a dumb man and he will speak. ~ Russian Proverb

The secret of two people is God's secret, the secret of three people is everybody's secret. ~ French Proverb

Pregnancy and fire cannot be kept secret. ~ Rwandan Proverb

After nine months the secret comes out. ~ Yiddish Proverb

Speech both conceals and reveals the thoughts of men. ~ Latin Proverb

Quotations about Secrets

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

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. ~ George Bernard Shaw

Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ~ Elbert Hubbard

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. ~ Cardinal De Richelieu

How shall we hope that another person will keep our secret if we do not keep it ourselves? ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

Secrets travel fast in Paris. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte

To know that one has a secret is to know half the secret itself. ~ Henry Ward Beecher

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

There are some occasions when a man must tell half his secret, in order to conceal the rest. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it. ~ Samuel Johnson

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. ~ Samuel Johnson

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

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. ~ Don Delillo

Secrecy is best taught by starting with ourselves. ~ Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows. ~ Robert Frost

Nothing is easier than to keep a secret: There needs no more but to shut one's mouth. ~ Author Unknown

It is wise to disclose what cannot be concealed. ~ Johann Friedrich Von Schiller

Three can keep a secret if two are dead. ~ Benjamin Franklin

Secrecy is the badge of fraud. ~ Sir John Chadwick

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child. ~ Victor Hugo

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

A secret may be sometimes best kept by keeping the secret of its being a ret. ~ Sir Henry Taylor

How can we accept another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant. ~ Bible

Secrecy is the chastity of friendship. ~ Jeremy Taylor

I am convinced digestion is the great secret of life. ~ Sydney Smith

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ~ Samuel Johnson

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

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide while skill loves the light. ~ Daniel C. Gelman

Whoever wishes to keep a secret must hide the fact that he possesses one. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Nothing weighs on us so heavily as a secret. ~ Jean De La Fontaine

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. ~ Sir Henry Taylor

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater

A man keeps another's secret better than he does his own. A woman, on the other hand, keeps her own better than another's. ~ Jean De La Bruyere

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. ~ Sigmund Freud

Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ~ Ibn Gabirol