Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men…

It is sometimes necessary to play the fool to avoid being deceived by cunning men.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Of the women are to blame for causing girl | boy born so why all the credit to the man so sly and cunning…

— Mak_786

“In the first ages they were wise men; in the middle age, madmen; in these latter ages, cunning men: in the earliest time they…

— Daniel Defoe

Reading maketh a full man; and writing an axact man. And, therefore, if a man write little, he need have a present wit; and…

— Francis Bacon

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

— Francis Bacon

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…

— Roger Ascham

The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.

— Benjamin Franklin

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

— Francis Bacon

It is impossible to love and be wise.

— Francis Bacon

Vain-glorious men are the scorn of the wise, the admiration of fools, the idols of paradise, and the slaves of their own vaunts.

— Francis Bacon

The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are.

— Francis Bacon

That humanity and sincerity which dispose men to resist injustice and tyranny render them unfit to cope with the cunning and power of those…

— Anonymous

The terrible immoralities are the cunning ones hiding behind masks of morality, such as exploiting people while pretending to help them.

— Vernon Howard

Life is a battle of wits, and many people have to fight it unarmed.

— Evan Esar

Charm is a cunning self-forgetfulness.

— Christina Stead