The last molars are known as the wisdom teeth, as they do not usually appear until the person has reached the "years of discretion."

This organ is, with admirable wisdom, so constructed as to endure a surprising amount of abuse, but it was plainly not intended to thrive on alcoholic liquids.

Whether I said any or all of these things to the schoolmistress, or not,whether I stole them out of Lord Bacon,whether I cribbed them from Balzac,whether I dipped them from the ocean of Tupperian wisdom,or whether I have just found them in my head, laid there by that solemn fowl, Experience, (who, according to my observation, cackles oftener than she drops real live eggs,) I cannot say.

The wisdom of past ages is likely to be wiser than any hasty conclusions of mine.

And at the end of the day the Open Road, if we follow it with wisdom as well as fervour, will bring us safely home again.

It is curious, is it not, with what skill we will adapt our sandy land to potatoes and grow our beans in clay, and with how little wisdom we farm the soils of our own natures.

It will give us a large measure of true wisdom if we stop sometimes when we have resisted a temptation and ask ourselves why, at that moment, we did right and not wrong.

He has beaten out the respect of a whole town; and from the crude human nature with which he started he has fashioned himself wisdom, and peace of mind, and the ripe humour which sees that God is in his world.

Cain yet dares to question the wisdom of the Almighty in bringing evil, sin, and remorse into the world.

A man of more wisdom than wittiness, and brain than fancy; and abler to any thing than to make verses.

Men see here much sin and much calamity; and where the last does not mortify, the other hardens; as those that are worse here, are desperately worse, and those from whom the horror of sin is taken off and the punishment familiar: and commonly a hard thought passes on all that come from this school; which though it teach much wisdom, it is too late, and with danger: and it is better be a fool than come here to learn it.

To combine politeness with pride is a masterpiece of wisdom.

In keeping with what I have said, it will be found that all those who profess to give instructions in the wisdom of life are specially urgent in commending the practice of silence, and assign manifold reasons why it should be observed; so it is not necessary for me to enlarge upon the subject any further.

Give way neither to love nor to hate, is one-half of worldly wisdom: say nothing and believe nothing, the other half.

It is only when a man has reached the happy age of wisdom that he is capable of just judgment in regard either to his own actions or to those of others.

" He did not grow impatient, seeming still convinced of the wisdom of his determination.

that is cowardice which is truly the best wisdom.

We are worn with wisdom that never brings Peace to the world and its woe For a space with Thy joyous lesser things, Teach me the faith I would know.

She has a mouth which would strike you as large,it is five and a half inches across,but when she speaks, and you hear the combined wisdom of Solomon, and Plato, and Socrates, and Solon, and the rest of the ancients (not to mention the moderns), falling from her lips, your only wonder is that her mouth keeps within its present limits.

"FOR which of you intending to build a tower sitteth not down first and counteth the cost?" An interesting question is here asked by the direction of infinite wisdom.

Such a rule of life and adopted and adhered to would have prevented many schemes and projects which have cost much, and which have been productive of nothing but the disgrace to their authors and misery to the human raceit would induce men to obey the dictates of experience rather than the dreams of enthusiasm, and would drive from the world a species of wisdom which is indeed folly.

" "It didn't take much wisdom.

The young romancière who in 1725 could write, "Love is a Topick which I believe few are ignorant of ... a shady Grove and purling Stream are all Things that's necessary to give us an Idea of the tender Passion," had in a quarter of a century learned much worldly wisdom, and her heroine likewise is too sophisticated to be moved by the style of love-making that warmed the susceptible bosoms of Anadea, Filenia, or Placentia.

In the first place, I deny that Socrates taught himself, for I believe that One taught him, who has promised to teach every man who desires wisdom; and in the next place, I have no fear but that the sound practical intellect which that same One has bestowed on the Englishman, will give you a far better auditory in any harvest field, than Socrates could find among the mercurial Athenians of a fallen age.

"I shall not question your wisdom or your sense of responsibility to me or to yourself.