Ecclesiastes/theme

Famous quotes containing the words ecclesiastes and/or theme:

    “A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to
    dance;”
    —Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes (l. III, 4)

    “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)