“Anyone who is among the living has hope--even a live dog is better off than a dead lion!”

About Ecclesiastes (Qoheleth)

Hebrew wisdom book traditionally ascribed to King Solomon. Scholars debate its authorship and date.

“A good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.”

“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.”

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep.”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”

“You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream!”