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Published Thursday, June 13, 2013 @ 7:20 AM EDT
Jun 13 2013

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.
-John Updike

I think I've discovered the secret of life- you just hang around until you get used to it.
-Charles M. Schulz

I think the secret of life is there is no secret.
-Rita Mae Brown

I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I just go on from day to day, taking what comes.
-Frank Sinatra

I've always believed in the adage that the secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
-Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Melancholy is at the bottom of everything, just as at the end of all rivers is the sea. Can it be otherwise in a world where nothing lasts, where all that we have loved or shall love must die? Is death, then, the secret of life?
-Henri Frederic Amiel

Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that it is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not really bring us any closer to the secret of the "old one." I, at any rate, am convinced that He does not throw dice.
-Albert Einstein

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another... (In the comic strip Peanuts)
-Charles M. Schulz

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret to outward success.
-Henry Ward Beecher

The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The secret is to always let the other man have your way.
-Claiborne Pell

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and have the two as close together as possible.
-George Burns

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.
-Oswald Spenger

The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.
-Voltaire (François Marie Arouet)

The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.
-Aristotle Onassis

The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent.
-Mel Lazarus

The secret of great fortunes without apparent cause is a crime forgotten, for it was properly done.
-Honoré de Balzac

The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do.
-James M. Barrie

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.
-F.H. Bradley

The secret of happiness... is to be happy already.
-Julian Barnes

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.
-Oscar Wilde

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-Lucille Ball

The secret of success in life is known only to those who have not succeeded.
-John Collins

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
-Benjamin Disraeli

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
-Jean Giraudoux

The secret of successful managing is to keep the five guys who hate you away from the four guys who haven't made up their minds.
-Casey Stengel

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
-Unattributed

The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is.
-Karl Kraus

The secret of your future is hidden in your daily routine.
-Mike Murdock

The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
-Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.
-Dave Weinbaum

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible...
-Bertrand Russell

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.
-Olivia Goldsmith


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