Tag: Omar Khayyam
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The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes – or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two – is gone.
Omar Khayyam
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The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.
Omar Khayyam
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Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.
Omar Khayyam
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A hair divides what is false and true.
Omar Khayyam
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
Omar Khayyam
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
Omar Khayyam
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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.
Omar Khayyam
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyam
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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.
Omar Khayyam
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
Omar Khayyam