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.

“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)