Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 7:9.

“The saying, “The Magyar is much too lazy to be bored,” is worth thinking about. Only the most subtle and active animals are capable of boredom.—A theme for a great poet would be God’s boredom on the seventh day of creation.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)