Players used to write wise and witty sayings on scraps of paper that were then inserted into twisted cakes.

Binky usually is full of wise old sayings.

Painted on the interior doorway are a number of wise sayings to give pause to those entering the sanctuary.

His talk was full of wise sayings.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Katur frequently thought like that, in axioms and wise sayings.

The wise sayings continued to rattle about in her head, but she kept them to herself, and did her best to ignore them.

For this earl was a man of many wise sayings.

By Jove, little woman, in all this house of wise sayings, no wiser or deeper saying has been said than that.

There is another wise Hungarian saying: he who grabs a lot takes little.