diff --git a/GainStation13/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/friendly/wisest_cow.dm b/GainStation13/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/friendly/wisest_cow.dm
index eaea0d2a01..a94720d91b 100644
--- a/GainStation13/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/friendly/wisest_cow.dm
+++ b/GainStation13/code/modules/mob/living/simple_animal/friendly/wisest_cow.dm
@@ -5,4 +5,12 @@
 
 /mob/living/simple_animal/cow/wisdom/wisest/Initialize(mapload)
 	. = ..()
-	speak.Add("Prefer pushing from pulling", "Prefer pulling from pushing", "Do not ask the administration on how to utilize the self-pleasuring device", "Unwrenching a pipe with high pressure, will send you flying beyond measure", "Remember to tailor your hardsuit", "Beware the long-eared menace", "IT'S FUCKING FUUUUSIIIIING!!", "The all-consuming dark mass shall consume your workplace shortly", "Clowns and Engineers don't mix, and yet they are one and the same", "You will be shot in the back by a dragon dressed in blue")
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+	// this does not rate the highest in IQ tests but it allows me to use 1 or 2 lists for an INFINITE NUMBER OF WISEST COWS
+	var/static/list/speak_list = list()
+	var/static/initialized = FALSE
+	if (initialized == FALSE)
+		speak_list = GLOB.wisdoms.Copy()
+		speak_list.Add("Prefer pushing from pulling", "Prefer pulling from pushing", "Do not ask the administration on how to utilize the self-pleasuring device", "Unwrenching a pipe with high pressure, will send you flying beyond measure", "Remember to tailor your hardsuit", "Beware the long-eared menace", "IT'S FUCKING FUUUUSIIIIING!!", "The all-consuming dark mass shall consume your workplace shortly", "Clowns and Engineers don't mix, and yet they are one and the same", "You will be shot in the back by a dragon dressed in blue")
+		initialized = TRUE
+	
+	speak = speak_list