Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Wise

Wise as Minerva.
—Anonymous

Wise as Solomon.
—Anonymous

As wise as the men of Gotham, who went to build a wall about the wood to keep out the cuckoo.
—Anonymous

Wise as Time and Silence are.
—Alfred Austin

Looking wise,
As men find woodcocks by their eyes.
—Samuel Butler

Wise as Thurlow looks.
—Charles James Fox

As wise as a woodcock.
—John Heywood

Wise as an owl.
—John Keats

Wise as the Mayor of Banbury, who would prove that Henry III was before Henry II.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)

Wise as age.
—William James Linton

Wise as nature.
—Alexander Pope

Wise as Waltom’s calfe.
—John Skelton

Wise as serpents.
—New Testament

Wiser than the children of light.
—New Testament

Wise as Shakespeare.
—Henry D. Thoreau

Wise as her mother’s apron string.
—Nicholas Udall