A Quote by Josh Billings

Wise men have but few confidants, and cunning ones none.

Josh Billings

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Josh Billings
American - Comedian
April 21, 1818 - October 14, 1885

It is a pity that, commonly, more care is had--yea, and that among very wise men--to find out rather a cunning man for their horse than a cunning man for their children.

Roger Ascham

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Benjamin Whichcote

Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half.

Benjamin Franklin

Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

Francis Bacon

Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men.

Plutarch

Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.

Samuel Johnson

People kill what they fear. They burned, and drowned, and hanged those they saw as witches, the devil's servants: the wise women and the cunning men, the unfortunate, the lost and the strange

Neil Gaiman

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

David McCullough

Wise statesmen ... established these great self-evident truths, that when in the distant future some man, some faction, some interest, should set up the doctrine that none but rich men, or none but white men, were entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, their posterity should look up again at the Declaration of Independence and take courage to renew the battle which their fathers began.