"Sapience" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... youth by the waye mette [with] lechery rydynge on a gote and pryde maned with couetyse on an olypha[un]tes backe in a fayre castell / & how by the ayde of dyscrecyon he dyde withstande theyr temptac[on]n and how he mette with sapience in the mase of wordely ...
— The Example of Vertu - The Example of Virtue • Stephen Hawes
... perfumed, and its colour is so splendiferously tanned, that I am doubtful if I recognise you as belonging to this race, since I have never seen any of them so gloriously attired. However you have swallowed the grain after the antique fashion. Your proboscis is a proboscis of sapience; you have kicked like a learned shrew-mouse; but if you are a true shrew-mouse, you should have in I know not what part of your ear—I know not what special auditorial channel, which I know not, what wonderful door, closes I know not how, and I know not with what movements, by your secret commands ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... ye maye se, what the perswasion of many doth. Certaynly he is very wyse, that is nat inclined to foly, if he be stered therevnto by a multitude. Yet sapience is founde in fewe persones: and they be lyghtly[239] olde ...
— Shakespeare Jest-Books; - Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed - to Have Been Used by Shakespeare • Unknown |
