Synonyms for wise men
wise men

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1. Wise Men, Maginoun

   (New Testament) the sages who visited Jesus and Mary and Joseph shortly after Jesus was born; the Gospel According to Matthew says they were guided by a star and brought gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh; because there were three gifts it is usually assumed that there were three of them

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1. wise men

   Synonyms:
   magi

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1. Panchatantra:

   The wife of bad conduct?constantly pleased with quarrelling?she is known by wise men to be cruel Old Age in the form of a wife.

2. Author Unknown:

   Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.

3. Natalie Clifford Barney:

   Why grab possessions like thieves, or divide them like socialists, when you can ignore them like wise men

4. David Guas:

   One fanciful tale traces it to Western European, pre-Christian societies in which whoever found a coin or bean in a special cake was crowned King for the year, whether the story was true or what you believe, Christians have long served King Cakes containing coins or gilded beans for the Feast of the Epiphany or Twelfth Night, a celebration of the visit of the three wise men — the Magi or Kings — to the infant Jesus 12 days after his birth.

5. Wieland:

   It is an old observation that wise men grow usually wiser as they grow older, and fools more foolish.