- Vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
1:2
- No one remembers what happened long ago, and no one will remember what happens now or in the future.
1:11
- With wisdom comes grief, and increasing knowledlge increases sorrow.
1:18
- the same fate (death) happens to the foolish and the wise.
2:14
- The best we can do is eat, drink, and enjoy the good in our labor.
2:24
- "To everything there is a season...." Some nice poetry and a great Byrds song. ("Turn, Turn, Turn" -- written by Pete
Seeger)
3:1
- Rejoice and do good in this life.
3:12
- Eat, drink, and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
3:13
- Someday God will show us that we are beasts.
3:18
- What happens to beasts happens to us. Our deaths are just like theirs. We are not above beasts.
3:19
- We and the beasts die and go to the same place. All we are is dust in the wind.
3:20
- Who knows that at death the spirit of humans go up, and the spirits of beasts go down?
3:21
- the best we can do is to rejoice in our our works.
3:22
- Two are better than one: the value of friendship
4:9
- A fool is known by a multitude of words.
5:3
- If you promise to pay someone something, pay it.
5:4
- Don't make a promise that you can't keep.
5:4
- If you love silver and riches, you'll never be satisfied.
5:10
- You can't take it with you.
5:15
- Eat, drink, and enjoy your good work.
5:18
- Don't we all go to the same place when we die?
6:6
- Who knows what is good in this life? Or what will happen on earth after we die?
6:12
- A good reputation is more valuable than precious ointment.
7:1
- It's better to be rebuked by wise people than to be praised by fools.
7:5
- It's better to patient than proud.
7:8
- Don't be quick to anger.
7:9
- Don't say, "I miss the good old days."
7:10
- Don't believe everything people say.
7:21
- Try to discover things with reason. Seek wisdom. Avoid folly, foolishness, and madness.
7:25
- Eat, and to drink, and be merry.
8:15
- The same thing happens to us all: we die.
9:2
- As long as we live, there is hope. A living dog is better than a dead lion.
9:4
- The living know they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no reward, and their memory is forgotten.
9:5
- All our love, hatred, and envy die with us. Nothing survives our death.
9:6
- So eat your bread and drink your wine with a happy heart.
9:7
- Live joyfully with the wife that you love.
9:9
- Whatever you do in this life, do it with all your might. Because there is no work, knowledge, or wisdom in the grave.
9:10
- The race isn't to the swift, nor the battle for the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to those with understanding,
nor good fortune to the skilled; time and chance happen to us all.
9:11
- For none of us knows when we will die. Like fish in a net or birds in a snare, we are snared in an evil time,
when it falls suddenly upon us.
9:12
- Wisdom is better than strength or weapons of war. But one bad person can destroy much that is good.
9:16
- Dead flies make an ointment stinky, as small mistakes tarnish a wise reputation.
10:1
- The words of the wise are gracious, but fools are swallowed by their own lips.
10:12
- A fool is full of words.
10:14
- Enjoy your youth, follow your heart, and look where you're going.
11:9
- There is no end to the making of books.
12:12
- Much study is a weariness of the flesh.
12:12
