Barnes distills his own experiences — and those of his parents and brother — in polished and wise sentences that recall the writing of Montaigne, Flaubert and the other French masters he includes in his discussion.
By his own guess, he wrote perhaps one out of every ten; the rest he found in books, especially anthologies like Thomas Fuller's 1732 "Gnomologia: Adagies and Proverbs; Wise Sentences and Witty Sayings Ancient and Modern, Foreign and British".
Who is the God who made this particular woman, a woman with a taste for new places, able to bring back these wise sentences as souvenirs: "How is it I can feel peaceful, glorified, connected in the literal presence of sharks?
The wisest sentence of the twentieth century was E.M. Forster's -- "only connect".
Participants were asked to avoid eye movements and blinks during the interval of word-wise sentence presentation.
The jury urged mercy in sentencing, and the judge sentenced Wise to a life sentence in prison, under the terms of which she could only be freed by executive clemency.
With the highly theatrical bearing that befitted the sentence, the wise guy in the crowd yelled back, "Well then, by God, man, plumb!" That was over twenty years ago now.
Courts may conclude the legislature is permitted to choose long sentences, but that does not mean long sentences are wise or just".
In light of these developments, these states would be wise to look to sentencing reform to reduce populations, rather than signing reckless outsourcing contracts.
"The best way to get along with his kind of people," Huck Finn writes about his crazy ranting father, in one of the best and wisest proto-Thurber sentences in American writing, "is to let them have their own way".
The sentence 'Socrates is wise' is not only said to express the thought that Socrates is wise, but also to describe the state of affairs of Socrates' being wise.
