Top 1200 Cunning Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Those props are as cunning as a bag o' weasels.

The cleverness of avarice is but the cunning of imbecility.

Wine is a cunning wrestler.

Football is a game, and people have to be cunning.

Cunning proceeds from want of capacity.

Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat.

I always believe that when you're not courageous, you become cunning.

The Death Star is just full of British actors opening doors and going,Oh... I... oh... What is it Lieutenant Sebastian? It's just the Rebels, sir... they're here. My God, man! Do they want tea? No, I think they're after something a bit more than that, sir. I don't know what it is, but they've brought a flag. Damn, that's dash cunning of them.

Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

Figures cannot calculate the amount collected by those public and private robbers: it is more than would liberate every slave in the United States; it would pay the British debt! They say, We do not force people to give. I see no difference between forcing a man out of his money, at the mouth of a pistol, and forcing it from by trick and cunning; the crime is the same.

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

In the same way the eminence attaching to the mere possession of great wealth disappoints us nine times out of ten, especially if the wealth has been accumulated rapidly. For great wealth is accumulated rapidly by cunning or chance, or a mixture of the two. Cunning has nothing to do with high qualities; it is rather a presumption against them; while chance has nothing to do with them either. Therefore it is that men are always complaining after meeting So-and-so, that he seemed to be astonishingly stupid, though he made a million in ten years and started as a pauper.

More are taken in by hope than by cunning.

Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither; it is devilish.

A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

Be not caught by the cunning of those who appear in a disguise.

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

The more clever and cunning people are, the stranger the events will be.

The cunning livery of hell.

Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable.

Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing

But Death was cunning.

May the merciful god, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep. Death is merciful, for there is no return therefrom, but with him who has come back out of the nethermost chambers of night, haggard and knowing, peace rests nevermore.

Say what some poets will, Nature is not so much her own ever-sweet interpreter, as the mere supplier of that cunning alphabet, whereby selecting and combining as he pleases, each man reads his own peculiar lesson according to his own peculiar mind and mood.

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.

Can you care for the people and rule the country and not be cunning?

In the wildest nature, there is not only the material of the most cultivated life, and a sort of anticipation of the last result,but a greater refinement already than is ever attained by man.... Nature is prepared to welcome into her scenery the finest work of human art, for she is herself an art so cunning that the artist never appears in his work.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Stratagem is the right hand of cunning.

Love is a cunning weaver of fantasies and fables.

One must be cunning and wicked in this world.

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

Cunning pays no regard to virtue, and is but the low mimic of reason.

Quiet cunning bested boastful brawn

If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

Cunning and treachery proceed from want of capacity.

Nothing is more hateful to wisdom than to much cunning.

There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.

Thought is so cunning, so clever, that it distorts everything for its own convenience.

There is a cunning which we in England call "the turning of the cat" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him.

Our spiritual history is the history of God-ventriloquists! The truth is that the voice of God is the voice of cunning Man, the ventriloquist's voice!

Thou shalt understand that it is a science most profitable, and passing all other sciences, for to learn to die. For a man to know that he shall die, that is common to all men; as much as there is no man that may ever live or he hath hope or trust thereof; but thou shalt find full few that hath this cunning to learn to die. I shall give thee the mystery of this doctrine; the which shall profit thee greatly to the beginning of ghostly health, and to a stable fundamental of all virtues.

Cunning and treachery are the offspring of incapacity.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

You might be a cunning linguist, but I am a master debater.

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom.

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

Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise

A cunning woman is a knavish fool.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

tyranny and injustice always produce cunning and falsehood.

Tell a man that he is putting on a stage performance in order to get what he wants, and he will irritably reject your observation. Why? Because most people go through life as cunning actors with a permanent horror of getting found out.

Cunning is strength withheld.

History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

Cunning differs from wisdom as twilight from open day.