<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Secrecy - Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996]]></link><description><![CDATA[I usually get my stuff from people who promised somebody else that they would keep it a secret.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54996</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54997]]></link><description><![CDATA[Secrets are things we give to others to keep for us.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54997</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54998]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who trusts secrets to a servant makes him his master.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54998</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54999]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55000]]></link><description><![CDATA[The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55000</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993]]></link><description><![CDATA[To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54994]]></link><description><![CDATA[Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54994</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54995]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54995</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is your man secret? Did you ne'er hear say, Two may keep counsel, putting one away?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54992</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54983]]></link><description><![CDATA[How can we expect another to keep our secret if we cannot keep it ourselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54983</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Men conceal the past scenes of their lives. [Lat., Vitae poscaenia celant.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret  ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54985]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret  Mine own could not contain.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54985</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54986]]></link><description><![CDATA[A secret at home is like rocks under tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54986</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54987]]></link><description><![CDATA[He who gives up the smallest part of a secret has the rest no longer in his power. [Ger., Wer den kleinsten Theil eines Geheimnisses hingibt, hat den andern nicht mehr in der Gewalt.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54987</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54988]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54988</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989]]></link><description><![CDATA[Leave in concealment what has long been concealed. [Lat., Latere semper patere, quod latuit diu.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54989</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54990]]></link><description><![CDATA[I pray you all, If you have hitherto concealed this sight,  Let it be tenable in your silence still.   And whatsoever else shall hap to-night,    Give it an understanding but no tongue.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54990</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54991]]></link><description><![CDATA[But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison house,  I could a tale unfold whose lightest word   Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood,    Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres,     Thy knotted and combined locks to part,      And each particular hair to stand on end       Like quills upon the fretful porpentine.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54991</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981]]></link><description><![CDATA[When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54981</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54982]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing is so oppressive as a secret: women find it difficult to keep one long; and I know a goodly number of men who are women in this regard. [Fr., Rien ne pese tant qu'un secret:  Le porter loin est difficile aux dames;   Et je sais meme sur ce fait    Bon nombre d'hommes que sont femmes.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54982</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.   - Gen. Thomas Harrison, ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54978]]></link><description><![CDATA[As witnesses that the things were not done in a corner.   - Gen. Thomas Harrison,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Never inquire into another man's secret; bur conceal that which is intrusted to you, though pressed both be wine and anger to reveal it. [Lat., Arcanum neque tu scrutaveris ullius unquam, commissumve teges et vino tortus et ira.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980]]></link><description><![CDATA[We trust our secrets to our friends, but they escape from us in love. [Fr., L'on confie son secret dans l'amitie, mais il echappe dans l'amour.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54980</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54976]]></link><description><![CDATA[For thre may kepe a counsel, if twain be awaie.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54976</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54977]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three may keep a secret if two of them are dead.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54977</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54973]]></link><description><![CDATA[For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest; neither any thing hid, that shall not be known and come abroad.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54973</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974]]></link><description><![CDATA[When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.   - Sir Thomas Browne,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54974</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975]]></link><description><![CDATA[Est rosa flos Veneris cujus quo furta laterent. [Roughly meaning, The discourses of the table among true loving friends are held in strict silence.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54969]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can hide all things, excepting twain-- That he is drunk, and that he is in love.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54970]]></link><description><![CDATA[For the king knoweth of these things, before whom also I speak freely: for I am persuaded that none of these things are hidden from him; for this thing was not done in a corner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54970</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971]]></link><description><![CDATA[The secret things belong unto the Lord our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54971</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54972]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54972</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thee is a skeleton on every house. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54968]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thee is a skeleton on every house.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54968</guid></item></channel></rss>