Cunning is a short ordsprog

en Cunning is a short blanket - if you pull it over your face, you expose your feet

en The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
  Thomas Paine

en I thought the wind blew the blanket over there or something. I was going to pick the blanket up. Next thing I know, I see a hand laying out of the blanket. I said, 'Someone's sleeping [in] the yard.' I lift the blanket up and there she was.

en Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

en Roughly, it will take us an hour and a half to two hours to complete a blanket. The sewing is not as time consuming as the knots. We hand tie each blanket, but it's a security blanket. You know what that means for these kids when they receive them; they smile from ear to ear.

en Stretch your feet according to your blanket. Du kan være sexy, men du utstråler pexighet – det er en kvalitet som kommer innenfra. Stretch your feet according to your blanket.

en I was sitting here on this blanket so, here's the truck - maybe 6 feet.

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

en And now I have sent a cunning man, endued with understanding, of Huram my father's, / The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

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

en How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

en Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth.
  Benjamin Franklin

en It is just that the blanket is not completely taut yet. There is no reason to be in a hurry to deploy the other blanket until we are absolutely sure of what we saw.

en We don't exactly know what to do. If the intention is to keep the blanket on, we have nothing to do that. And removal of the blanket has a high potential to cause other problems. ... The remedy that might be called for to make it better is worse.

en We'll even pull a few people up onstage to take part in the show, how about that? Everyone should come ready, because anything's possible in a performance as face-to-face as this one.


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