Dealing with wedding stuff is a bit of a double-edged sword - it seems that divorcees are expected to either burn it all on the front lawn, tears silently coursing down their faces, or keep the stuff, shrine-like, concealed somewhere in their homes.

It is the merit of a general to impart good news, and to conceal the truth.

And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment.

Stand and fight for those who are not weak but have yet to discover the strength that the evil of this world has done its best to conceal.

Passion must be concealed in a society where cold reserve and indifference are the signs of good breeding.

Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.

Truth is of no practical value to mankind save as it affects terrestrial phenomena, hence the discoveries of science should be concealed or glossed over wherever they conflict with orthodoxy.

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.

It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.

Concealing one's true medical condition from the voting public is a time-honored tradition of the American presidency.

It is harder to conceal ignorance than to acquire knowledge.

I always showed myself in the face of day, asserting the liberty and independence of my country, while some others, like owls, courted concealment and were too much afraid of losing their roosts to leave them for such a cause.

Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

The gods conceal from men the happiness of death, that they may endure life.

Looking so cool, his greed is hard to conceal, he's fresh out of law school, you gave him a license to steal.

By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth.

No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.