Solomon Quotes

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don't disclose it to your friend.

We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.

There are three types of friends: those like food without which you can't live those like medicine which you need occasionally and those like an illness which you never want.

Being cheerful keeps you healthy

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

The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.

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.

My friend is he who will tell me my faults in private.

Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!

My back is thick with scars for protesting my freedom.

Give me the gift of a listening heart.

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

Riches bring anxiety; wisdom gives peace of mind.

Life is enriched by difficulty; love is made more acute when it requires exertion.

A tiny fly can choke a big man.

A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!

Building trust means thinking about trust in a positive way.

Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.

Teachers are our greatest public servants; they spend their lives educating our young people and shaping our Nation for tomorrow.

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

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

At the end of the day, will God be interested primarily in whether I have been kind and helped others, or in whether I was baptized and how?

I tend to find the ecstasy hidden in ordinary joys, because I did not expect those joys to be ordinary to me.

When you believe that you cannot stitch your own heart back together, go to work on the hearts of other people; there is no surer way to repair yourself than to repair them.

There's a stability and growth pact which was agreed for the eleven countries which tries to limit the size of budget deficits among the eleven countries.

Some countries that are close to Europe that already hold Deutschemarks, clearly would automatically hold euros, those are countries in Eastern Europe mainly, a few countries in Africa.

Building trust begins with an appreciation and understanding of trust, but it also requires practice and practices.

The man who walks with wise men becomes wise himself.

Credit leads a man into temptation. Cash down is the only thing that will deliver him from evil.

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

Sorrow is better than laughter; for, by the sadness of the countenance, the heart is made better.

Jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire.

Trust is almost always conditional, focused, qualified, and therefore limited.

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

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

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

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

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

Money is the answer for everything.

When you banish the dragons you banish the heroes.

Thou hast created me not from necessity but from grace.

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.

Life is dear to every living thing; the worm that crawls upon the ground will struggle for it.

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

Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.

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

I think a lot of the time people assume that their values are universal. And they don't understand which aspects of their values are actually universal and which aspects are very specific.