The wisest course for you will be to drop the matter.

"I do not think that would be a wise course of action, Captain."

"He wanted to run his morning patrol before coming here, and that seemed like a wise course to us."

She decided that would be the wisest course for the time being.

"At the time it seemed the wisest course of action."

But he realized that this was not a wise course for him.

Now that didn't seem like such a wise course of action.

"A wise course," said the President with an understanding smile.

A few days ago he had decided that the wisest course for the time being was to wait and see.

"I think our wisest course is an early bed and an earlier start tomorrow."