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?

Old women should not seek to be perfumed.

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?

Let who will boast their courage in the field, I find but little safety from my shield, Nature's, not honour's law we must obey: This made me cast my useless shield away.

Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men

Nothing can be sworn impossible since Zeus made night during mid-day, hiding the light of the shining Sun.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Man has made many machines, complex and cunning, but which of them indeed rivals the workings of his heart?

None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a being of acute intellect, political cunning, and the fiercest courage. These universal and instinctive tendencies of the human mind reveal much.

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.

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

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

The fact is that America's weapons systems have made it impossible for anybody to confront it militarily. So, all you have is your wits and your cunning, and your ability to fight in the way the Iraqis are fighting.

These people being of a sharp and acute intellect, and gifted with a rich and powerful understanding, excel in whatever studies they pursue, and are more quick and cunning than the other inhabitants of a western clime.

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

I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty.

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

In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.

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?

The art of using deceit and cunning grow continually weaker and less effective to the user.

Silence, exile, cunning and so on... it's my nature to keep quiet about most things. Even the ideas in my work.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

It is a matter of common knowledge that the government of South Carolina is under domination of a small ring of cunning, conniving men.

I am a mediocre being, a bit cunning.

Happy people are ignoramuses and glory is nothing else but success, and to achieve it one only has to be cunning.

The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.

The sure way to be cheated is to think one's self more cunning than others.

If beauty isn't genius it usually signals at least a high level of animal cunning.

This is the great fault of wine; it first trips up the feet: it is a cunning wrestler.

The easiest way to be cheated is to believe yourself to be more cunning than others.

Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest deer in the flock.

Do not let the Obama administration fool you with all their cunning Alinsky methods. And if you don't know what that method is, I implore you to get the book 'Rules for Radicals,' by Saul Alinsky. Mr. Obama is very well trained in these methods.

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

Cunning is the art of concealing our own defects, and discovering other people's weaknesses.

I'm devious, cruel, cunning and addictive.

One half of my life has put the other half in the grave.

There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

Life was a funny thing that happened to me on the way to the grave.

Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out.

I am a soul. I know well that what I shall render up to the grave is not myself. That which is myself will go elsewhere. Earth, thou art not my abyss!

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.