Khayyam, Omar quotes
1048-1131 Persian Astronomer PoetThere was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Khayyam, Omar
Future
Living Life Tomorrow s fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
Khayyam, Omar
Life and Living
Tis all a Checker-board of Nights and days where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays, and one by one back in the Closet lays.
Khayyam, Omar
Life and Death
And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop t we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.
Khayyam, Omar
Sky
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Khayyam, Omar
Solitude
A hair divides what is false and true.
Khayyam, Omar
Truth
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Khayyam, Omar
Alcohol and Alcoholism
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Khayyam, Omar
Argument
Oh, the brave Music of a distant drum!
Khayyam, Omar
War
The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Khayyam, Omar
Writers and Writing
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
Khayyam, Omar
Wine