Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

“Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has long ago approved what you do.”
—Bible: Hebrew, Ecclesiastes 9:7.

“And God-appointed Berkeley that proved all things a dream,
That this pragmatical, preposterous pig of a world, its farrow that so solid seem,
Must vanish on the instant if the mind but change its theme ...”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)