Solomon Quotes - Page 5

• Right around my first year of college - I remember "Song of Solomon," by Toni Morrison, just moved me tremendously. The power of language and how it can peel back truths, bring things to the surface. So I learned a lot from fiction.

  Barack Obama

  Song, College, Years

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• [The Book of the Law]was lost for so many years. And then Josiah decided to celebrate Passover. The text says that "The Passover sacrifice had not been offered in that way ... during the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah" [2 Kings 23:22]. What do you mean? Not in the days of David and Solomon? Never before? And what of the days of the prophets? What happened? That's what I'm anguishing over. If the Book of the Law could be forgotten for so many years, who knows what was done to it during those years? Maybe it was lost later, too.

  Elie Wiesel

  Kings, Book, Mean

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• Part of what I am dealing with, with this blackness, is asking the question, "Where are those black people, who are as dark as the description of a young black boy that Solomon Northup gives in 12 Years A Slave?" He describes the young black 14-year-old boy as "blacker than any crow." You have to question if he is using that metaphorically or as a descriptive?

  Kerry James Marshall

  Dark, Boys, Years

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• This past Thanksgiving, my father was at the farm, and I had all 11 dogs in the house with a father who never allowed dogs in the house. And he got up to leave the table and came back and Solomon was in his chair. And he says, "This dog is in my chair." And I said, "It's the other way around, you're sitting in his chair."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Funny, Dog, Father

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• There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite patience. Solomon and Lincoln: This too shall pass. Damn right it will. Or Chekhov: Nothing passes. Equally true.

  Chad Harbach

  Kindness, Infinite, Chekhov

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• When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind

  Rumi

  Plato, Firsts, Blind

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• Solomon's Laws:
  8. If a guy who's smart, handsome, and rich invites you and your girlfriend to a nudist club...chances are he's got a giant shmeckel.

  Paul Levine

  Girlfriend, Smart, Law

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• Spring is beautiful everywhere, but it is more than beautiful in Lebanon. Spring is the spirit of an unknown God speeding through the world, which, as it reaches Lebanon, pauses, because now it is as at home with the souls of the Prophets and Kings hovering over the land, chanting with the brooks of Judea, the eternal Psalms of Solomon, renewing with the Cedars of Lebanon memories of an ancient glory.

  Khalil Gibran

  Beautiful, Kings, Memories

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• If Solomon counts the day of one's death better than the day of one's birth, there can be no objection why that also may not be reckoned amongst one's remarkable and happy days.

  John Aubrey

  May, Happy Day, Birth

  John Aubrey (1857). “Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects”, p.4

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• I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about them. You would have thought that the butterflies and flowers were friends of his. See how richly they are clad, he said. Even King Solomon did not have such raiment.

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Jesus, Kings, Flower

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• This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

  Ray Comfort

  Evil, Generations, Slippery Slope

  FaceBook post by Ray Comfort from Mar 22, 2014

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• For Solomon, he lived at ease, and full Of honour, wealth, high fare, aimed not beyond Higher design than to enjoy his state.

  John Milton

  Design, Ease, Wealth

  John Milton (2014). “Paradise Regained In Plain and Simple English: A Modern Translation and the Original Version”, p.33, BookCaps Study Guides

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• I have then with pleasure concluded with Solomon, Everything is beautiful in his season.

  Izaak Walton

  Beauty, Beautiful, Pleasure

  Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1859). “The Complete Angler”, p.103

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