Sentence examples for said a wise from inspiring English sources

"Victorian fiction is obsessed by law and lawyers," he said — a wise observation to make if one wants to get on the right side of a group of lawyers obsessed with Victorian fiction.

"The Irish have a saying: 'Where you sit shows where you stand,' " said a wise Chicago Irish political insider.

He called school cuts (that he proposed) "short sighted" and said a "wise and responsible" alternative would be the tax hike.

"Jefferson, in his first Inaugural, spoke for his countrymen when he said, 'A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.

As the ride neared its end, he said, "A wiser man would have said no, and let her die there".

Earlier, he said, "A smart wise guy will talk to law enforcement in hopes — in hopes, not because it's gonna happen — that he'll derive some benefit from it.

Earlier, he said, "A smart wise guy will talk to law enforcement in hopes — _in hopes, not because it's gonna happen — that he'll derive some benefit from it.

Kris sings the winners single, which sounds, as ever, like (says a wise voice in my living room) a rejected song from a broadway musical.

"Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations," says a wise physician, Dr. René Dubos, of the Rockefeller Institute, "yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively".

Then King Sejong introduced Hangul, a newly invented alphabet of 28 characters, saying, "a wise man can acquaint himself with them before the morning is over; a stupid man can learn them in the space of ten days".

David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association, warns: "I would say a wise owner would view his ownership as something of a public trust, in addition to the profit motive, and you really do want to allow the fans a little bit more input than I think is being allowed, with respect to Hull.