Solomon Quotes

There is nothing new under the sun.

What is new in the world? Nothing. What is old in the world? Nothing. Everything has always been and will always be.

For indeed all that we think so new to-day has been acted over and over again, a shifting comedy, by the women of every century.

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

Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.

The more things change, the more they are the same.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

There is nothing new under the sun.

All things from eternity are of like forms and come round in circle.

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will perforce happen again.

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

History is about loops and continuums.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

The more change, the more it's the same thing.

The more you read about history, the more you realize that there is nothing new under the sun.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

What the first philosopher taught the last will have to repeat.

The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

In the end, there is no end.

History, we know, is apt to repeat itself.

Like the sun and moon, they end but to begin anew; like the four seasons, they pass away to return once more.

Each generation must get on the same old merry-go-round, only disguised in a fresh coat of paint.