Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
What you would hide from an enemy don't tell a friend.
The wise man tells not what he knows. It is not prudent to sport with one's head by revealing the king's secrets.
I don't want anyone to know my business, and that's the way I like it.
It is safer to be silent than to reveal one's secret to any one, and telling him not to mention it.
On a serious level, I wouldn't tell the press if I was in a relationship or not. I wouldn't ever reveal that, because it takes you down a certain road... I have no desire to be courting the press with my love life.
There are two great rules of life: never tell everything at once.
I never told my parents that I was doing boxing. They only came to know after I became state champion and my name and picture came in the newspaper.
I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous.
Hide your secret even from the closest friend; learn to be silent.
A secret is too little for one, enough for two, and too much for three.
First of all, I'm pretty private about my personal life.
If you wish another to keep your secret, first keep it to yourself.
The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.
Never tell anyone what you are going to do till you've done it.
Never tell anyone that you're writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They'll encourage you to death.
I'm not a performer who will come on stage and tell you everything about my life. It's just not who I am.
A bag of dragons buys a man's silence for a while, but a well-placed quarrel buys it forever.
To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.
Two may keep counsel putting one away!
When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.
The first year I was on the show, it took an interviewer about 45 minutes to get it out of me that I even had a dog, and even then I wouldn't tell him the dog's name.
The first rule in keeping secrets is nothing on paper.
If I have news and sit on it I'm not doing my job.
I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual now-a-days to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot
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