We passit the wee shop on the way home. As A walkit i, a border collie wis carefully removin his harness. Whan A went i, A callit oot, 'whose dug is thon, he's gettin aff his lead'. A man left the shop i a hurry. Whan A left, the dug wis carefully removin the harness again. A waitit an let the owner know 'he can reach the clip’ 🤣
#Cunning
A quotation from Mervyn Haisman
JAMIE: Have you thought up some clever plan, Doctor?
THE DOCTOR: Yes, Jamie, I believe I have.
JAMIE: What are you going to do?
THE DOCTOR: Bung a rock at it.
Mervyn Haisman (1928-2010) British screenwriter
Doctor Who (1963), 05×02 “The Abominable Snowmen,” Part 4 (1967-10-21) [with Henry Lincoln]
More about this quote: wist.info/haisman-mervyn/4611/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #seconddoctor #mervynhaisman #anticlimax #cleverness #cunning #doctorwho #plan #rock #scheme
#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity
- French: malin
- German: gewitzt
- Italian: astuto
- Portuguese: astúcia
- Spanish: astuto
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🎩✨ Ah yes, the long con of #LLMs, a mere extension of Pascal's #cunning plan to trick us all with mechanical marvels since 1623. Who needs progress when we can just blame the badgers? 🦡🔮
https://tomrenner.com/posts/400-year-confidence-trick/ #LongCon #Pascal #Badgers #TechHumor #HackerNews #ngated
A quotation from Joseph Addison
Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-11-17), The Spectator, No. 225
More about this quote: wist.info/addison-joseph/81313…
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CREON: A woman of hot temper — and a man the same —
Is a less dangerous enemy than one quiet and clever.
[ΚΡΈΩΝ: Γυνὴ γὰρ ὀξύθυμος, ὡς δ᾽ αὔτως ἀνήρ,
ῥᾴων φυλάσσειν ἢ σιωπηλὸς σοφή.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Medea [Μήδεια], l. 319ff (431 BC) [tr. Vellacott (1963)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/80979/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #medea #anger #badtemper #cunning #danger #fury #plotting #scheming #selfcontrol #selfrestraint #silence #subtlety #temper #wrath #rage #warningsign
What knowing Judgment, or what piercing Eye,
Can Man’s mysterious Maze of Falshood try?
Intriguing Man, of a suspicious Mind,
Man only knows the Cunning of his Kind;
With equal Wit can counter-work his Foes,
And Art with Art, and Fraud with Fraud oppose.
Then heed ye Fair, e’er you their Cunning prove,
And think of Treach’ry, while they talk of Love.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1742 ed.)
More info about this quote: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/79…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichard #poorrichardsalmanac #deceit #dishonesty #humannature #love #seduction #sweettalk #cunning #treachery
#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity
- French: malin
- German: gewitzt
- Italian: astuto
- Portuguese: astúcia
- Spanish: astuto
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AGAMEMNON: But women?
Women overpower men?
HECUBA: There is power
in numbers, and cunning makes us strong.
ἈΓΑΜΈΜΝΩΝ: καὶ πῶς γυναιξὶν ἀρσένων ἔσται κράτος;
ἙΚΆΒΗ: δεινὸν τὸ πλῆθος σὺν δόλῳ τε δύσμαχον.
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Hecuba [Hekabe; Ἑκάβη], l. 883ff (c. 424 BC) [tr. Arrowsmith (1958)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/78722/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #hecuba #battleofthesexes #craftiness #cunning #men #numbers #sexism #strength #women
Tricks and Treachery are the Practice of Fools, that have not Wit enough to be honest.
Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1740 ed.)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/franklin-benjamin/77…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #benfranklin #benjaminfranklin #poorrichardsalmanac #betrayal #cheating #cleverness #cunning #deception #dishonesty #guile #intelligence #intrigue #lying #treachery #trickery #tricks #wit
#elites #exceptionalists #wannabes #english #tourists Do I feel sorry for them. ? Not in the slightest. They've destroyed a way of life that was never theirs. #cunning #stunts #bankofmom&dad
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/jul/01/digital-nomad-dream-turns-sour
#reform #fascist #israel #palestine #ukpol #refugeeswelcome FYI . Dem bastards are within the city walls. Stun his lab? Better turned his 12 bore on himself #cunning #stunt
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/british-pro-israel-mp-suggests-palestine-action-activists-should-expect-be-shot
#cunning : wrought with, or exhibiting, skill or ingenuity
- French: malin
- German: gewitzt
- Italian: astuto
- Portuguese: astúcia
- Spanish: astuto
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Waiting for yet another email from my curatrice./conservator. Them legs are a janglin'. I have a feeling that my luck has run out this time. Neverless, I did well playing the system there for awhile. #cunning 😜
#ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #Gender #Age #Image #Suit #Glasses #GoldToiletPaper #Shrewdness #Cunning #Smile #Control #WhiteBackground #PicassoStyle #FlatIllustration #GeometricShapes #Clean #Psychedelic #Ornament #Cartoon #Vectorial #TarotCard #ai #aiArt #aiArtWork #Male #Age45 #Suit #Glasses #GoldToiletPaper #Shrewdness #Cunning #Smile #Control #WhiteBackground #PicassoStyle #FlatIllustration #GeometricShapes #Clean #Psychedelic #Ornament #Cartoon #Vectorial #ClassicTarotCard
A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
Tricks and Treachery are the practice of Fools that have not Wit enough to be Honest.
[Les finesses et les trahisons ne viennent que de manque d’habileté.]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶126 (1665-1678) [tr. Stanhope (1694), ¶127]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
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A quotation from La Rochefoucauld
The surest method of being deceived is to believe that one is cleverer than others.
[Le vrai moyen d’être trompé, c’est de se croire plus fin que les autres]
François VI, duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-1680) French epigrammatist, memoirist, noble
Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims], ¶127 (1665-1678) [tr. FitzGibbon (1957), ¶127]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/la-rochefoucauld-fra…
#quote #quotes #quotation #cheating #cleverness #craftiness #cunning #deceiving #deception #ego #fooling #outwitting #pride
Top ten (new) posts in January 2025
https://library.hrmtc.com/2025/02/01/top-ten-new-posts-in-january-2025/
#above #activism #aleisterCrowley #apocalypse #bestPosts #bestTen #book #compendium #cunning #decay #devil #effigy #ensoulling #everyOne #Evil #FrancisYoung #gods #January2025 #King #life #love #magic #MarshallWSL #MichaelMHughes #occult #occultLineages #quote #rat #resistance #romanCatholic #secrets #siginificance #silence #spells #storiedSun #Symbols #tarot #topPosts #topTen #traditional #vats #wicked #wine #WitchOfSouthernLight #Witchcraft #words
Hard poem, but reflects how I feel these days…
Acid - #MaryOliver
In Jakarta,
among the venders
of #flowers and soft drinks,
I saw a child
with a hideous mouth,
#begging,
and I knew the #wound was made
for a way to stay alive.
What I gave him
wouldn’t keep a dog alive.
What he gave me
from the brown coin
of his sweating face
was a look of #cunning.
I carry it
like a bead of acid
to remember how,
once in a while,
you can creep out of your own life
and become someone else—
an #explosion
in that nest of wires
we call the #imagination.
I will never see him
again, I suppose.
But what of this rag,
this shadow
flung like a boy’s body
into the walls
of my mind, bleeding
their sour taste—
#insult and #anger,
the great movers?
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