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And further, by these, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh. — Ecclesiastes 12 12

The thoughts of the wise are in the house of mourning, but the thoughts of fools are in the house of pleasure" (CJB, Ecclesiastes 7:4). — H.W. Charles

Nominally, there is one executive for every eight federal employees, a ratio that would bankrupt many private industries. — Martin L. Gross

[Based upon the message of "nothing new under the sun" in Ecclesiastes,] If nothing ever changes, then God has no plan. — Jennifer Michael Hecht

The more the words the less the meaning and how does that benefit anyone?

Ecclesiastes 6:11 — N.D. Richman

I have thought deeply about all that goes on here under the sun, where people have the power to hurt each other. - Ecclesiastes 8:9 — Marc Seraphs

Ecclesiastes 7:20 clearly sounds the futility of legalism: There is not a righteous man on earth / who does what is right and never sins. — Beth Moore

As Ecclesiastes tells it, a wholesale devotion to pleasure will, paradoxically, lead to a state of utter despair. — Philip Yancey

Ecclesiastes would be quite unbearable were it not for Heavens eternity and its citizens".

~R. Alan Woods [2013] — R. Alan Woods

Meaningful relationships are two-way, and that means constantly looking for ways to improve your customers' lives. — Peter Friedman

He who loves money never has money enough,
He who loves wealth never has enough profit;
This too is vanity. — Anonymous

There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven. Eccl 3:1 — Bible. New International Version

The authors of Job and Ecclesiastes explicitly state that there is no afterlife. — Bart D. Ehrman

I'll quote from Ecclesiastes to the Catholics, from the Koran to the Muslims, from the Torah to the Jews, from Aristotle to the atheists. — Paulo Coelho

'There's nothing new under the sun': that's what you wrote, Ecclesiastes. But you yourself were born new under the sun. — Wislawa Szymborska

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body — Ecclesiastes 12 12

God has made everything beautiful for its own time. - Ecclesiastes 3:11 — Gary Chapman

Iris from sea brings wind or mighty rain. — Empedocles

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun — Solomon

Please stop sniffing the robot boy, Noemi tells herself, jerking out of the trance. — Claudia Gray

The Ecclesiastes of the Old Testament says there is no new thing under the sun. We can also say there is no new thing above the sun! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Because of laziness the roof caves in, and because of negligent hands the house leaks. Ecclesiastes 10:18 — Beth Moore

Ecclesiastes shows that man without God is in total ignorance and inevitable misery. — Blaise Pascal

That which has been is now;

and that which is to be

has already been.

Ecclesiastes 3:15 — Amy Harmon

this saying of Ecclesiastes: "Who knoweth whither the soul of the animal goeth? — Victor Hugo

Meaningless! Meaningless!"
says the Teacher.
"Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless."
Ecclesiastes 1:2 — Anonymous

Very well, said Oak, firmly, with the bearing of one who was going to give his days and nights to Ecclesiastes for ever. — Thomas Hardy

Without focusing and getting to clarity you cannot lead. You cannot motivate. You cannot plan. You cannot communicate. — Bobb Biehl

One of the things we must be able to agree to is to lose an election and not take to the streets. — Jerry Pournelle

As he came from his mother's womb
Naked shall he return to go as he came
Nothing from his labor will he carry away in his hand
Ecclesiastes — Anonymous

I tried to smile but feared I would cry. 'I always wondered what it was like to be shot.'
'Now you've lived to tell the tale. — Cameron Stracher

Beauty is its own excuse for being. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can't easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12). — John Bevere