"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
... sublime critic; you, I doubt not, are one of those consummate connoisseurs, who, in their purifications, let humour evaporate, while they endeavour to preserve decorum, and polish wit, until the edge of it is quite worn off. Or, perhaps, of that class, who, in the sapience of taste, are disgusted with those very flavours in the productions of their own country which have yielded infinite delectation to their faculties, when imported from another clime; and d—n an author in despite of all precedent and prescription;—who extol the writings of Petronius Arbiter, ...
— The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete • Tobias Smollett
... learn to play ball above the ears," retorted Bean with crisp sapience. "How about old Cy Young? How about old Callahan of the Sox? How about Wagner out there—think he's only ...
— Bunker Bean • Harry Leon Wilson
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