Solomon quotes:

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  • Riches are a stronghold in the imagination of a rich man.

  • Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

  • Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

  • Love is as strong as death; its jealousy as unyielding as the grave. It burns like a blazing fire; like a mighty flame. Many waters cannot quench love, rivers cannot wash it away

  • Sorrow is better than laughter: for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

  • The lesser of two evils is still evil.

  • A righteous man hates lying, But a wicked man is loathsome and comes to shame.

  • A wise man's heart directs him toward the right, but a foolish man's heart directs him toward the left.

  • Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

  • Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.

  • A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

  • A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

  • The slacker does not plow during planting season; at harvest time he looks, and there is nothing.

  • One who is slow to anger is better than the mighty; one who rules his spirit, than he who takes a city.

  • If you desire wisdom like money and buried treasures, then you'll find it!

  • All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full.

  • Kindness and faithfulness keep a king safe, through kindness his throne is made secure.

  • As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.

  • In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

  • Love is strong as the Death; jealousies are as cruel as the tomb..

  • There is a time to weep and a time to laugh; a time to mourn and a time to dance.

  • If you see oppression of the poor, and justice and righteousness trampled in a country, do not be astounded.

  • A fool is wise in his own eyes.

  • A good name is better than precious ointment.

  • A soft answer breaks the rage, a tough answer encourage the fury.

  • A wise person will listen and take in more instruction.

  • A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

  • All problems are people problems. And most people problems are people refusing to act like people.

  • And also to the alien, who is not of Thy people Israel, but comes from a distant land on account of Thy fame; for hearing of Thy great name and Thy strong hand, and Thine outstretched arm, he comes to this house to pray... do Thou listen in the heavens, the place where Thou dwellest, and perform all that the alien begs of Thee, so that all the peoples of the earth may know Thy name, to fear Thee like Thine own people Israel, and to know that Thy name is proclaimed over this house that I have built.

  • Answer not a fool according to his folly,lest thou also be like unto him.

  • As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

  • Being cheerful keeps you healthy

  • Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

  • Better is the man of humble standing that works for himself than one who plays the great man but lacks bread.

  • Better the anger of a friend than the kiss of an enemy.

  • Comfort me with apples, for I am sick of love.

  • Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

  • For 365 days I went in between the legs of many women

  • For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.

  • From the fruit of his lips a man enjoys good things.

  • Give me the gift of a listening heart.

  • Go, eat your bread with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart, for God has already approved what you do. Let your garments be always white. Let not oil be lacking on your head. Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.

  • Happy are those who find wisdom... She is more precious than jewels, and nothing you desire can compare with her. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold; She is more precious than rubies, and all the things that can be compared unto her. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.

  • Have you beheld a man skillful in his work? Before kings is where he will station himself; he will not station himself before commonplace men.

  • He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs

  • He that walketh with wise men shall be wise.

  • He who walks with the wise grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.

  • I have found the one whom my soul loves,

  • I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  • I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom concerning all that has been done under heaven. It is a grievous task which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

  • If you are honest, you will live life safely. But if you are dishonest, you will get hurt.

  • In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

  • It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

  • Jealousy is cruel as a tomb, its embers are embers of fire.

  • Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. [Therefore do not compare your lot with another's lest you see their advantages and lose the joy of what you already have.]

  • Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.

  • Knowledge is of more value than gold

  • Lazy hands make a man poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.

  • Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.

  • Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

  • Money is the answer for everything.

  • My beloved is mine and I am his.

  • Of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

  • One man pretends to be rich, yet has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

  • That, who keeps his mouth, keeps his Soul.

  • The desire accomplished is sweet to the soul....

  • The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger. It is his glory to overlook an offense.

  • The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

  • The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

  • The rich is the one that rules over those of little means, and the borrower is servant to the man doing the lending.

  • The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.

  • The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

  • The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • The tongue has the power of life and death.

  • Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

  • To gain riches is wise; to pay for riches with happiness is foolish.

  • Under the Sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor wealth to the intelligent, nor success to the skillful, but time and chance govern all. For man does not know his time.

  • What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

  • Who is the wise man? He who sees what's going to be born.

  • Whoever stubbornly refuses to accept criticism will suddenly be broken beyond repair.

  • Without vision a people perishes.

  • Words kill, words give life; they're either poison or fruit--- YOU choose.

  • Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel.

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