Sentence examples for old wisdom from inspiring English sources

In fact, there's only old wisdom that nobody wants to face.

Corporate Governance 2.0 would return to this old wisdom through exclusive forum provisions.

Bill Clinton's selection of Al Gore in 1992 flouted the old wisdom about balance.

Mrs. Astor had some plain old wisdom for the new business of dressing up.

Not all the old wisdom applies though, it has to be said.

The old wisdom was that Ukip is akin to the mythical town of Brigadoon.

Henry, in his five-year-old wisdom, got it instinctively.

Age-old wisdom suggests it is not what but whom you know that matters.

The modern version of the age-old wisdom still applies: 28.3g of prevention is worth 0.454 kilos of cure.

One drunkard begets another, wrote the Greek philosopher Plutarch nearly 2,000 years ago, demonstrating the age-old wisdom of the observation that alcoholism runs in families.

So she stays in the big, empty house with Marge and thinks of her own grandmother back in Africa, an Uwargida-like figure who "had become the repository of the community's age-old wisdom and knowledge...