Sentence examples for if it were wise from inspiring English sources

So then take it dear God because it knows that You are all it should want and if it were wise You would be all it would want and the times it thinks wise.

If it were wise, or forward-looking, or sensitive, Mozart wouldn't have died a pauper, and one of the greatest -- if not the greatest architecturally -- railway station ever built, Penn Station, wouldn't have been demolished in 1963 to make way for the profit that could be squeezed out of the architectural deformity that replaced it: the Madison Square Garden/Penn Station horror in New York City.

The rich world must do all it can to foster such measures without ever dropping its guard, if it is wise, against whatever thunderbolts the moderns and pre-moderns may throw at it.*"The Post-Modern State and the World Order", by Robert Cooper.

I asked if it was wise to pinch pennies on such a thing.

"You have to ask yourself if it is wise to carry out a referendum.

If it is wise, it will not persist in the efforts to thwart the overwhelming will of the people.

Others wonder if it is wise to have the same man creating her message and testing its effectiveness.

I asked Marc and Vassili if it was wise for any couple to become engaged before testing their domestic compatibility.

Perhaps the Capitals' owner, Ted Leonsis, is wondering if it was wise to have invited President Obama to a game, or perhaps he is consoling himself with a Twackle.

And I wondered if it was wise to release such a line into the wilds, to just let it go like a puff of smoke.

The car was not armored, and I asked him if it was wise to drive a car labelled "Jewish Legion" through Arab villages.