88 Solomon Quotes
Following is our list of solomon quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about wisdom of solomon.
Quick Jump To
Famous Solomon Quotes
A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them. — Bible Proverbs
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise. — Bible
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding. — Bible
The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. — Robert South
Other people’s wisdom prevents the king from being called a fool. — African Proverbs
Wisdom is supreme; therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt you; embrace her and she will honor you. — Bible
Wisdom is better than weapons of war. 9:18b, Ecclesiastes — Bible
He that winneth souls is wise (Proverbs 11:30) - Those are the best educated ministers, who win the most souls. — Charles Grandison Finney
Only a wise person can solve a difficult problem. — African Proverbs
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king. — John Milton
Accumulate, accumulate! This is Moses and the Prophets! — Karl Marx
The wisest have the most authority. — Plato
Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. — Diogenes
A sovereign of high character and intelligence must be able to know the right man, should place the responsibility on him, and expect results. — Sun Tzu
Better a wise man’s servant than an idiot’s master. — Vietnamese Proverbs
Short Solomon Quotes
- Solomon got more hurt by his wealth, than he got good by his wisdom. — Thomas Brooks
- The true Philosophy, known and practised by Solomon, is the basis on which Masonry is founded. — Albert Pike
- The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4. — Jack Adams
- Solomon's Laws 1. When the law doesn't work...work the law. — Paul Levine
- My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture. — Zig Ziglar
- I want to be like Solomon, and instead of asking for riches ask for wisdom and creativity. — Tasha Smith
- You know, Ms. Morgan, that was your mother you just hammered," Mr. Solomon said. — Ally Carter
- Solomon made a big mistake when he asked for wisdom. — Anton Chekhov
- Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. The Song Of Solomon 2:5 — Bible
- Solomon's temple also was designed to increase the attractiveness of the city of his residence. — Julius Wellhausen
King Solomon Quotes
King Solomon, who said to his thousand wives, Who doesn't have a headache tonight? Never got a dinner! — Red Buttons
Hollywood was always heartbreak town, though most of the world fancied it to be Shangri-La, King Solomon's mines, and Fort Knox rolled into one big ball of 24-karat gold. — Hedda Hopper
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
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. King Solomon — Bible
All the fascination of King Solomon's Mines seems to be behind those great mountains and this I may add is a bit of advance work for mother, an entering wedge to my disappearing from sight for years and years in the Congo. — Richard H. Davis
The Rastafari culture has a very strong connection to Haile Selassie, a descendant of King Solomon. — Ziggy Marley
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are. — Marianne Williamson
Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. — Herman Melville
The dust comes secretly day after day, Lies on my ledge and dulls my shining things. But O this dust I shall drive away Is flowers and kings, Is Solomon's temple, poets, Nineveh. — Viola Meynell
Wisdom Of Solomon Quotes
Prime ministers require the hide of a rhinoceros, the morals of St. Francis, the patience of Job, the wisdom of Solomon, the strength of Hercules, the leadership of Napoleon, the magnetism of a Beatle and the subtlety of Machiavelli. — Lester B. Pearson
Few have attained to consummate wisdom in the perfection of philosophy: Solomon attained to it, and Aristotle in relation to his times, and in a later age Avicenna, and in our own days the recently deceased Robert, Bishop of Lincoln, and Adam Marsh. — Roger Bacon
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
When something goes wrong, accuse yourself first. Even the wisdom of Plato or Solomon can wobble and go blind — Rumi
I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. — John Barrymore
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon. — Anton Chekhov
... where Solomon says that 'Wisdom has built herself a house' (Prov. 9:1), he refers darkly in these words to the preparation of the flesh of the Lord: for the true Wisdom did not dwell in another's building, but built for Itself that dwelling-place from the body of the Virgin. — Gregory of Nyssa
I always think it is kind of funny when it comes to wisdom, and I say God has a sense of humor, because my middle name is Solomon, and I love the Book of Proverbs which is written by Solomon, and I have read from the Book of Proverbs to start and end every day since I was 14. — Benjamin Carson
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom. — John Calvin
People Writing About Solomon
More Solomon Quotes
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
The First Crusade ... set off on its two-thousand-mile jaunt by massacring Jews, plundering and slaughtering all the way from the Rhine to the Jordan. "In the temple of Solomon," wrote the ecstatic cleric Raimundus de Agiles, "one rode in blood up to the knees and even to the horses" bridles, by the just and marvelous judgment of God. — Herbert J. Muller
Yes, polygamy is one of the relics of Adam, of Enoch, of Noah, of Abraham, of Isaac, of Jacob, of Moses, David, Solomon, the Prophets, of Jesus, and his apostles. — Brigham Young
Better be an old maid, a woman with herself as a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one. — Herman Melville
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
Hello, ladies," Joe Solomon said, but not before I snatched the piece of paper and crammed it in my mouth, which ordinarily would have been really great spy maneuvering except that Josh didn't use Evapopaper. "How's the lasagna?" Mr. Solomon asked, and I started to say something before I remembered that my mouth was...well...otherwise engaged. — Ally Carter
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
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?) — Jonathan Stroud
The Jews looked for a special savior, a messiah, who was to redeem mankind by the agreeable process of restoring the fabulous glories of David and Solomon, and bringing the whole world at last under the firm but benevolent Jewish heel. — H. G. Wells
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
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
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
In Virgil's account of the good housewife, who rises early in order to measure out the work of the household, and in Solomon's description of the thrifty woman of his time, one sees the value set upon feminine industry and economy in times far removed from our own. — Julia Ward Howe
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
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
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
Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens. — William Butler Yeats
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
He who has not an adventure has not horse or mule, so says Solomon.--Who is too adventurous, said Echephron,--loses horse and mule. — Francois Rabelais
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
Well had Solomon said,'Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith. — Charlotte Bronte
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. — Julius Wellhausen
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
Like Guitar in Son of Solomon, and Son in Tar Baby, he believed that harmony could never exist between the races. — Toni Morrison
And then we've got Blades of Glory, and we've got Brothers Solomon, and I've got a script in development with this guy Chuck Martin who used to write on Arrested, and, you know, we have a few things in various stages of development. — Will Arnett
Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people Ive ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever been in any kind of contact with. To not tell that story would have been disgraceful, in my opinion. — Chiwetel Ejiofor
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
For sheer drama, few accounts of slavery match Solomon Northup's tale of abduction from freedom and forcible enslavement. — Ira Berlin
In Conclusion
Which quotation resonated with you best? Did you enjoy our collection of solomon quotes? Or may be you have a slogan about solomon to suggest. Let us know using our contact form.
Citation
Feel free to cite and use any of the quotes in this collection of solomon quotations. For popular citation styles(APA, Chicago, MLA), please use this citation page.
Embed HTML Link
Copy and paste this HTML code in your webpage