To keep your own secrets is wisdom ; but to expect others to keep them is folly. Proverbs - Page 21by William Scott Downey - 1853 - 104 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1878 - 590 pages
...can give it. They that do nothing, are in the readiest way to do that which is worse than nothing. To keep your own secrets is wisdom ; but to expect others to keep them for you is folly. You may glean knowledge by reading, but you must separate the chaff from the wheat... | |
| Charles Edward Bolton - Anthologies - 1884 - 414 pages
...HUMANITY is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. — Richter. To KEEP your own secrets is wisdom, but to expect others to keep them is folly. — Downey's Proverbs. OF YOUR neighbor's faults see little, hear little, and speak less than you either... | |
| Maxims - 1897 - 176 pages
...combined with folly. 12. It is a misfortune to be exposed; but folly for a man to expose himself. 13. To keep your own secrets is wisdom, but to expect others to keep them is folly. 14. Trust not him with secrets who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers. 15. When... | |
| Abram N. Coleman - Maxims - 1903 - 310 pages
...Johnson. 28. It is a misfortune to be exposed ; but folly for a man to expose himself. W . S. Downey. 29. To keep your own secrets is wisdom ; but to expect others to keep them is folly. OW Holmes. 30. Trust not him with secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.... | |
| William Scott Downey - Proverbs - 1855 - 122 pages
...to forget it, is the cure. 10. Law without justice is as a wound without a cure. DOWNEY S PROVERBS. 11. Prosperity gathers smiles, while adversity scatters...secrets is wisdom ; but to expect others to keep them is • •24 DOWNEY'S PROVERBS. CHAPTER VI. 1. A gay body often accompanies a weeping soul. •* 2. Money... | |
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