Quotes About Solomon

And Solomon says, 'Fortunate is the man who is in dread of all, because he who possesses a fearless heart and a strong body will presume too much, and misfortune shall befall him.

For Solomon says, "When you have no audience, do not try to speak." Whereupon did this wise man say, "I see well that the common proverb is true, that 'Good counsel is most wanting when it is most needed.

For Solomon says, 'He who loves peril shall be vanquished by peril.

Lo, what said King Solomon, who can teach us so well? 'Do not befriend an angry man, and walk not along the way with a madman, lest you repent.' I will no further say.

Now that I have told you by whom you should be counseled, now will I teach you which counsel you ought to eschew. First, you must avoid the counseling of fools. For Solomon says, 'Take no counsel from a fool, because he can offer no advice but that which follows from his own desires and his own interests.' The Book says that, 'The condition of a fool is this: he easily believes evil of every person, and easily believes all goodness is in himself.

Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendoes.

By his own bitter experience, Solomon learned the emptiness of a life that seeks in earthly things its highest good.

In the battle with inward sin and outward temptation, even the wise and powerful Solomon was vanquished. His failure teaches us that, whatever a man's intellectual qualities may be, and however faithfully he may have served God in the past, he can never with safety trust in his own wisdom and integrity.

When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.

Ages employed in making history have no time for studying it.

Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it.

Then again, Solomon was human. And that meant he was flawed (Go on, take a look at yourself in the mirror. A good long look, if you can bear it. See? Flawed's putting it mildly, isn't it?)

Hippo in a skirt: this was a comic reference to one of Solomon's principal wives, the one from Moab. Childish? Yes. But in the days before printing we had limited opportunities for satire.

Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

From the building of the temple of Solomon, which is also treated as a leading epoch in chronology, a new period in the history of worship is accordingly dated, - and to a certain extent with justice.

The sixteenth-century scholar, O'Flaherty, fixes the Milesian invasion of Ireland at about 1000 B. C. — the time of Solomon.

Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

Let me put this in my words: Solomon asked for a hearing heart, and God said, Okay, I'll give you wisdom. The implication is that wisdom is not just a deposit made into somebody who now has all the answers. It implies that the ability to hear the voice of God is the key to wisdom. Wisdom, then, is a relational fruit.

As Solomon said in the Old Book, if two women squabble over which of them is the mother of a certain infant, the way to solve the problem is to cut the baby in half and share the baby in parts." "That's revolting." "Is it? I always wondered if that baby was a colicky brat and both women were really trying to pawn it off on the other one.

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

in the song of solomon there is this passage that reads: i found him whom my soul loves. i held him and would not let him go. to holding on, to knowing again that moment of rapture, of recognition where we can face one another as we really are, stripped of artifice and pretense, naked and not ashamed.

The most famous sigil is the Seal of Solomon, also commonly called a Jewish star, which is a hexagram, two interlocking triangles, representing the perfect union of the male and female principles.

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The flesh of the coon is palatable, but verily there is nothing in all butcherdom so delicious as a roasted 'possum.