Solomon Quotes - Page 3

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet.

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

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

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

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

A good name is better than precious ointment.

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

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

The desire, which is accomplished, is sweet to the soul.

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

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

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

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

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

My beloved is mine and I am his.

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

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.