Mrs. Lot might have found comfort in the homely wisdom of the poems, printed in the program in translations by Daniel Ladinsky.

A highly personalized one-woman musical play, written and performed by Ms. Gould, it is suffused with homely wisdom and movingly honors formative family influences.

The letter in its entirety reads: "Here's a piece struck off at white heat, full of Attic salt, homely wisdom and sly observation.

"One cubic centimetre cures ten gloomy sentiments," said the Assistant Predestinator citing a piece of homely hypnopædic wisdom.

Miss Comstock, for all her homely wisdom, did not appear to have great experience with Society.

Theirs is a common-sense approach drawing on such homely wisdom as "forewarned is forearmed."

His sermons, if such they can be called, were brief and heartfelt talks, replete with homely wisdom; he never minced his words, but spoke to all with apostolic freedom.

Olret frowned with what could be suspicion or just bemusement at that particular piece of homely wisdom.

Facing him was the same as receiving a stern glance from a loving grandfather who was dispensing homely wisdom.

It is Starns, not the righteous Bishop, who is the inspiration for this impoverished community, as, with homely wisdom, he elevates the people from the misery of their existence.