Famous King Solomon Quotations

"Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel."

by King Solomon

"And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and an hundred and twenty thousand sheep: so the king and all the people dedicated the house of God."

by Anonymous

"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage."

by Herman Melville

"King Solomon put a tiny ant in his palm and asked: 'Is there anyone in the world greater than I?' Yes, answered the ant, I am, since God sent you to carry me."

by Midrash Vayosha