He that will outwit the fox must rise betimes. [ Proverb ]

A woman and her servant, acting in accord, would outwit a dozen devils. [ Proverb ]

Fathers, in reclaiming of a child, should outwit him, and seldom beat him. [ Proverb ]

Nature intends that, at fixed periods, men should succeed each other by the instrumentality of death. We shall never outwit Nature; we shall die as usual. [ Fontenelle ]