Bribes throw Dust into cunning Men’s eyes.
Cunning Quotes
All obstructions to the execution of the Laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, controul, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial […]
Sly as a fox.
Cunning is a short blanket – if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet.
It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less.
Cunning, n. The faculty that distinguishes a weak animal or person from a strong one. It brings its possessor much mental satisfaction and great material adversity. An Italian proverb says: “The furrier gets the skins of more foxes than asses.”
There is no Heaven, there is no Hell; These are the dreams of baby minds; Tools of the wily Fetisheer, To fright the fools his cunning blinds.
Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise.
The animal world is about on a level of a gladiator’s show… whereby the strongest, the swiftest, and the cunningest live to fight another day.
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.