Josh Billings Quotes

We try and be as open as we can, and to protect the secrets that we must protect.

All confidence placed in another is dangerous if it is not perfect, for on almost all occasions we ought to tell everything or to conceal everything. We have already told too much of our secret, if one single circumstance is to be kept back.

Traditionally I'm not a very good secret-keeper.

I'm really bad at keeping secrets.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

The only way to keep your secrets safe is to have none at all.

Do people ever reflect, one wonders, that the best way to protect against the penetration of one's secrets by others is to have the minimum of secrets to conceal?

How can we expect another to keep our secret if we have been unable to keep it ourselves?

I'm not so great at keeping secrets; maybe that's why no one ever tells me things.

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

How can we expect others to keep our secrets if we cannot keep them ourselves?

I'm not very good at keeping secrets.

Do you think I just turn my secrets out for everyone?" He is unfazed. "I didn't know they were secrets," he says. "Or I wouldn't have asked.

It's human to have a secret, but it's just as human to reveal it sooner or later.

If you have a secret, keep it to yourself.

If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.

A woman who will tell her age, will tell anything.

Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.

When anyone says to me, 'Can you keep a secret?' I say, 'Why should I, if you can't?'

A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.

It's safe to tell a secret to one, Risky to tell it to two. To tell it to three is thoughtless folly, Everyone else will know.

It is wise not to seek a secret, and honest not to reveal one.

The thing about secrets is that they are usually best kept by just one person. That was the special thing about secrets. Some people seemed to think that the best way to keep a secret was to tell as many people as possible; what could possibly go wrong for a secret when there were so many people defending it?

It is vain to keep a secret from one who has a right to know it. It will tell itself.

One person can keep a secret, but not two.