Quotes About Cunning

So a life builds up in layers, piecemeal, a kind of haphazard engineering that has elements of skill and cunning - the previous layers mostly hidden, as are the smaller mounds within, the clumps of different-coloured earth, the burnt offerings, the nodules of pain and the delight. The hard graft of the chopped-off antlers, picking and stabbing and scraping. The embers of old fires, old flames, in mute fragments of charcoal.

The Crow lifted up her head and began to caw her best, but the moment she opened her mouth the piece of cheese fell to the ground, only to be snapped up by Master Fox. That will do, said he. That was all I wanted. In exchange for your cheese I will give you a piece of advice for the future .Do not trust flatterers.

The Lion and the Fox

Ah," he said. "That'll be the little bit of crime that we'll have to embark on." "Crime," Stephanie said with a smile. "Finally.

Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain. Let

Mighty brawn is no match for a nimble brain.

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal (Candler)

Never play cat and mouse games if you're a mouse.

La vita è piena di lavori duri e ci saranno sempre dei furbi pronti a imbrogliarmi. Be', sarò più duro dei duri e più furbo dei furbi... e farò quadrare i miei conti.

And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?

Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning.

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

I would, if one-armned and jonesing, doubtless have found a way to cook up a hearty spoon of Mexican tar and slam it with my toes. (I met a double amputee in San Francisco whose girlfriend slapped a bra strap around his throat and geezed him in the neck. Another triumph of the human spirit. But slap me if I get sentimental...)

I may not be as stong as I think, but I know many tricks and I have resolution.

I may not be as strong as I think,' the old man said, 'But I know many tricks and I have resolution.

De az okos embernek néha be kell rúgnia, hogy kibírja a bolondok között.

Do people catch a cunning dear without the dogs?

But being manipulative isn't necessarily a mark of intelligence. I mean, have you ever met a child?" she asks rhetorically.

The difference between a wolf and a sheep is that a sheep will stand by and watch a wolf devour its own lambs. If you threaten a wolf's pup, it'll rip your throat out. Wolves are foul, vicious creatures. But it's better to be a wolf pup than a dead lamb. Now good night.

Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat's ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there.

Battles are won by slaughter and manoeuvre,' he wrote in The World Crisis. 'The greater the general, the more he contributes in manoeuvre, the less he demands in slaughter.

Camouflage doesn't help when the other guy is willing to defoliate the whole jungle.

Ty, kapcanie, gdyby? w zupie po?kn?? karalucha, to w kiszkach wi?cej by? mia? rozumu ani?eli w g?owie.

So may all your wives, if you need them, be rich and pretty; and all your husbands, if you want them, be young and virile; and all your cats as wily, perspicacious and resourceful as: Puss-in-Boots!