It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
Ben Shahn

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.
William Graham Sumner

Men will confess to treason, murder, arson, false teeth, or a wig. How many of them will own up to a lack of humor?
Frank Moore Colby

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison

The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart.
St. Jerome

The majority of the senior class of Vassar does not desire my company and I must confess, having read specimens of their thought and sentiments, that I do not desire the company of the majority of the senior class of Vassar.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
Ninon de L'Enclos

The poets, therefore, however much they adorned the gods in their poems, and amplified their exploits with the highest praises, yet very frequently confess that all things are held together and governed by one spirit or mind.
Lactantius

The sinner will not confess, nor will the priest receive his confession, if the veil of secrecy is removed.
DeWitt Clinton

The Spice Girl Victoria Beckham has just published the story of her life. I confess that it is not in my reading table.
Mick Jagger

There are things to confess that enrich the world, and things that need not be said.
Joni Mitchell

There is no requirement that police stop a person who enters a police station and states that he wishes to confess a crime or a person who calls the police to offer a confession because volunteered statements of any kind are not barred by the 5th Amendment.
Earl Warren

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.
Mel Torme

Torture numbers, and they'll confess to anything.
Gregg Easterbrook

Unanimously we will confess and pledge ourselves to stand behind the Fuehrer and his movement today and forever and thereby to be of service to the idea of eternal Germany.
Gustav Krupp

We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
Gerald Brenan

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
Ovid

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance, I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning, my answer has at least one merit, that of perfect sincerity.
Jean Henri Fabre