Sentence examples for wisdom telling from inspiring English sources

Joe loved sharing his wit and wisdom, telling stories, reading, the New York Times crossword puzzle, golf, travel, especially to Ireland, cigars, and most of all his family, the sine qua non of his existence.

A failed novelist, he's fond of inverting intellectual wisdom (telling Henry's mother that "the mass of boys lead lives of quiet masturbation") and mocking his literary ambitions (he declares he will write an "answer" to Proust called "Forgetfulness of Things That Happened Only Yesterday").

There, I called Alan Godlas, a professor of Islam and religion at University of Georgia in Athens, and he gave me words of wisdom, telling me, "Your anger reveals a deeper pain".

Elsewhere in the episode, Cox offers a few words of wisdom, telling Rickey, "My work has been to love myself at every phase ― to be able to look in the mirror every day and say, 'You are beautiful.'" .

Murray didn't technically crash – one of Rumpke's friends spotted him at the restaurant and invited him – but he took the opportunity to drop some bona fide wisdom, telling the guys that just as funerals are actually for the living, bachelor parties are actually for unmarried friends.

Conventional wisdom tells us that hope is a good thing.

"Like with like together strike", ancient wisdom tells us.

Folk wisdom tells us to take a deep breath when feeling anxious.

Pronate too much or too little, conventional wisdom tells us, and you'll wind up hurt.

But, Wisdom told me, the Moore allegations "hit closer to home for me, to be honest.

History and conventional wisdom told her she couldn't be both at the same time.