Wise man

That is the reason, why some say, that the wiseman liveth as long as he ought, and not so long as he can.

But where's that wiseman, that would not be I, / If she would not deny?

Mr Lieberman is arguably the last surviving example of a peculiar Washington species: the Wise Man who is willing to put party allegiance aside when it comes to big issues such as foreign policy.

Steady old Väinämöinen / the everlasting wise man [translating tietäjä] / was driving along his roads / pacing out his ways / in those glades of Väinö-land / on the Kalevala heaths.

Some of the other charms employed by the wise men had a more tangled pedigree.