Solomon Quotes

• A man always mistakes a woman's clinging devotion for weakness, until he discovers that it requires the strength of Samson, the patience of Job, and the finesse of Solomon to untwine it.

  Helen Rowland

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

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• Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom.

  Thomas Brooks

  Hurt, Wealth

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Solomon's Laws
  1. When the law doesn't work...work the law.

  Paul Levine

  Law

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

  Charlotte Bronte

  Love Is, Hatred, Dinner

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• Light physical is said by Solomon to be sweet, but gospel light is infinitely more precious, for it reveals eternal things, and ministers to our immortal natures.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sweet, Light, Ministers

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.22, Discovery House

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• Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

  St. Jerome

  Daughter, Mother, Book

  Letter 107, 403 AD,

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• Listen carefully to the words and tone of voice you use with your spouse. Are you complaining all the time and telling her what she's not doing right? Or are you doing like Solomon-blessing, encouraging, and uplifting that woman?

  Joel Osteen

  Uplifting, Blessing, Voice

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time and Become a Better You Boxed Set”, p.149, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not that I wouldn't love to have a final roll in the hay - I am a man yet, and something never die - but the thought of those sweet kernels bursting between my teeth sure sets my mouth to watering. It's fantasy, I know that. Neither will happen. I just like to weight the options, as though I were standing in front of Solomon: a final roll in the hay or an ear of corn. What a wonderful dilemma. Sometimes I substitute an apple for the corn.

  Sara Gruen

  Sweet, Men, Thinking

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• The Bible places supreme value in the thought life. "As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he," Solomon wrote. Jesus asserted that sin's gravity lay in the idea itself, not just the act.
  "Paul admonished the church at Philippi to have the mind of Christ, and to the same people he wrote, "Whatever is true ... pure ... if there be any virtue ... think on these things." Thus, the
  follower of Christ must demonstrate to the world what it is not just to think, but to think justly.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Jesus, Heart, Men

  FaceBook post by Ravi Zacharias from Mar 04, 2017

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• In Psalm 72, Solomon prays for power and fame but he says the purpose of influence is to speak up for others and one is the immigrant. He doesn't delineate between legal and illegal.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, Praying, Influence

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• The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded.

  Albert Pike

  Philosophy, Masonry, Bases

  "Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry".

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• I do not see how it is possible for an intelligent human being to conclude that the Song of Solomon is the work of God, and that the tragedy of Lear was the work of an uninspired man.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Song, Intelligent, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4159, Library of Alexandria

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• They try to say what you are, spiritual or sexual? They wonder about Solomon and all his wives. In the body of the world, they say, there is a soul and you are that. But we have ways within each other that will never be said by anyone.

  Rumi

  Love, Spiritual, Wife

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• Eventhough you are not equipped,
  keep searching:
  equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord.
  Whoever you see engaged in search,
  become her friend and cast your head in front of her,
  for choosing to be a neighbour of seekers,
  you become one yourself;
  protected by conquerors,
  you will yourself learn to conquer.
  If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon,
  don't smile contemptuously upon its quest.
  And of all your skills, and wealth and handicraft,
  Weren't they first merely a thought and a quest?

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Islamic, Skills

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• King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner!

  Red Buttons

  Kings, Wife, Tonight

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• I want to be like Solomon, and instead of asking for riches ask for wisdom and creativity.

  Tasha Smith

  Creativity

  Source: aalbc.com

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• Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom.

  Anton Chekhov

  Wisdom, Mistake, Made

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• Yes, I am a Jew and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Islands, Justice, Diversity

  Benjamin Disraeli's remarks during Disraeli-O'Connell debate in Parliament, www.victorianweb.org. 1835.

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• I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

  John Barrymore

  Funny, Marriage, Thinking

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• Maybe Liz was right and she'd wanted someplace safe. Maybe Mr. Solomon really did understand that running was the only way Macey would find out if we'd run after her. Or maybe, like me, she just wanted to disappear for a little while

  Ally Carter

  Running, Liz, Safe

  Ally Carter (2011). “Gallagher Girls: Don't Judge A Girl By Her Cover”, p.155, Hachette UK

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

  Bob Edwards

  Funny, Problem, Said

  Bob Edwards (1976). “The wit & wisdom of Bob Edwards”

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• Atlantic's Jerry Wexler believes first-rate records are made by first-rate voices. He certainly has worked with enough of them: Clyde McPhatter, Joe Turner, La Vern Baker, Ray Charles, Otis Redding, Solomon Burke, Wilson Pickett and Aretha Franklin.

  Jon Landau

  Believe, Voice, Rays

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Two, Years

  Mark Twain (2008). “Letters from the Earth: Easyread Edition”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.

  Jack Adams

  Islands, May

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• Since my first discussions of ecological problems with Professor John Day around 1950 and since reading Konrad Lorenz's "King Solomon's Ring," I have become increasingly interested in the study of animals for what they might teach us about man, and the study of man as an animal. I have become increasingly disenchanted with what the thinkers of the so-called Age of Enlightenment tell us about the nature of man, and with what the formal religions and doctrinaire political theorists tell us about the same subject.

  Allan McLeod Cormack

  Kings, Reading, Science

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