Sentence examples for too wise for from inspiring English sources

Carrick, the older man by 15 years, was much too wise for that kind of frivolity.

(Too wise for vanity, he said that it "beats hollow everything I ever liked in photography before").

Isaac Lowe from Morecambe was too wise for Marco McCullough from Belfast, and stopped him in the eighth round to win the vacant Commonwealth featherweight title.

He stopped, tilted his head back, and let out a deep wolfish howl full of the melancholy of those too wise for their own good.

Those dealing with letters of the alphabet, words, and symbols are generally statements calling for interpretation: e.g., "ICUR YY 4 me" ("I see you are too wise for me"); "What is in the middle of Paris?"—"R"; "Spell 'dry grass' with 3 letters?"—"Hay".

No, he was too wise for that.

Julius Winsome is too wise a book for that, too sad, too tender.

New Jersey, whose residents are too wise to fall for that, could instead save money by moving all the toll booths on the southbound New Jersey Turnpike a couple of miles north and giving the last few miles to Delaware to maintain.

And so it is that I doubt he was really lost all those 40 years; he was, after all, too wise and wily for that.

They – and me – are too wise and too experienced for that".

But Ipswich were too wise to be had for a laugh.