Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise.
Cunning Quotes
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.
Cunning has effect from the credulity of others, rather than from the abilities of those who are cunning. It requires no extraordinary talents to lie and deceive.
In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning, yelling works better.
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
No man is so much a fool as not to have wit enough sometimes to be a knave; nor any so cunning a knave as not to have the weakness sometimes to play the fool. (Marquis of Halifax)
She knew her distance and did angle for me, Madding my eagerness with her restraint, As all impediments on fancy’s course Are motives of more fancy; and in fine, her infinite cunning, with her modern grace Subdued me to her rate. (All’s Well That Ends Well)
I have a plan so cunning you could stick a tail on it and call it a weasel.
